Mephisto (1981)
ThumbScore
👍 80%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 80%
(RT: 80%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Krystyna Janda as Barbara Bruckner
Ildikó Bánsági as Nicoletta von Niebuhr
Rolf Hoppe as Tábornagy
Karin Boyd as Juliette Martens
György Cserhalmi as Hans Miklas
Péter Andorai as Otto Ulrichs
Christine Harbort as Lotte Lindenthal
Is Mephisto good?
Most people think so. 80% audience score, estimated from 159 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.
Overview
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons. Wikipedia ↗
