
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.
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Klaus Maria Brandauer as Hendrik Höfgen

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

Tamás Major as Oskar Kroge, színigazgató

Ildikó Kishonti as Dora Martin, primadonna

Mária Bisztrai as Motzné, tragika

Sándor Lukács as Rolf Bonetti, bonviván

Ágnes Bánfalvy as Angelika Siebert, naiva

Judit Hernádi as Rachel Mohrenwitz, drámai szende

Vilmos Kun as Ügyelõ

Hédi Temessy as Egy nagybankos neje

Teri Tordai as Laura, szobrásznõ

István Szabó as Theatre Party Attendant (uncredited)

David Robinson as Davidson, kritikus

Irén Bordán as

Kati Sólyom as
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