István Szabó’s MEPHISTO (1981), starring Klaus Maria Brandauer in Hungary’s first-ever Foreign Language Film Oscar-winner, will run in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum from Wednesday, January 8 to Thursday, January 16.

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“What do they want from me now? After all, I am just an actor.” So how did an up-and-coming thespian with a mixed-race mistress and left-wing sympathies make it to the top of Nazi Germany’s theatrical world? Klaus Maria Brandauer’s Hendrik Hoefgen overwhelmingly triumphs in the role of Mephistopheles, the demonic tempter in Goethe’s Faust. Adapted from Klaus (son of Nobel Laureate Thomas) Mann’s 1936 novel, so transparently about his brother-in-law Gustaf Gründgens (the bowler-hatted criminal boss in Lang’s M and one of Germany’s greatest stage actors) that it couldn’t be published in Germany until 1971. Mephisto earned Hungary its first-ever Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, keyed by Brandauer’s riveting performance.

Special screenings of Szabó’s Confidence and Colonel Redl, also in new 4K restorations, will show during the run.

CONFIDENCE (1980, Szabó)
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End of the WWII in Budapest, and the resistance stashes Péter Andorai and Ildikó Bánsági for their own safety as a married couple with a seemingly safe elderly couple — only trouble is, they’re happily married to others. Tightly controlled, atmospheric chamber piece. Oscar nominee, Best Foreign Language Film.

COLONEL REDL (1985, Szabó)
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In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, Klaus Maria Brandauer rises from Colonel to head of counterterrorism, even as his sexual orientation makes him prey to Russian blackmailing, and sets him up as the fall guy to the great Armin Mueller-Stahl’s imperial heir Franz Ferdinand (soon to be assassinated at Sarajevo). Oscar nominee, Best Foreign Language Film.

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