The story in itself is excellent, but the art direction and set decoration are appallingly bad and spoil the story. Not for a single moment was I convinced to see people moving about in 1918-1919 Germany. Well kept and (during nighttime) lit streets and squares, an inviting shopping promenade, balconies (overlooking the courtyard where Max Rothmann eventually perishes) decorated with electric X-mas lights. Germany in 1918 was very much a country on the brink of civil war, where people died of starvation in their thousands after years of allied naval blockade. Actors and extras simply looked too well fed and dressed. And finally, an art gallery in an abandoned factory building: how very 1980-ish (instead of 1918-ish).
Review of Max
