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    503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

    503/1-001 - Council Chamber

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    directed by István Szabó

    Germany/Hungary/Austria, 1981, 144 min.

    In early 1930s Germany, ambitious stage actor Hendrik Höfgen (an extraordinary performance by Klaus Maria Brandauer) cares little for politics and lives only for his art. But when the Nazis begin their rise to power, he seizes the opportunity to perform propaganda plays for the Reich and soon becomes Germany’s most popular actor. Consumed with fame, Hendrik must now survive in a world where the ideology of evil is the ultimate drama and the true cost of a man’s soul becomes the most shattering measure of all.