 A Late Quartet was Hoffman 's other film release of 2012 , where he played a violinist in a string quartet whose members ( played by Christopher Walken , Catherine Keener and Mark Ivanir ) face a crisis when one is diagnosed with Parkinson 's disease . The drama received favorable reviews , and Stephen Holden of The New York Times called Hoffman 's performance " exceptional " . In 2013 , Hoffman joined the popular Hunger Games series in its second film , The Hunger Games : Catching Fire , where he played <unk> Plutarch Heavensbee . The film finished as the tenth @-@ highest grossing in history to that point , and made Hoffman recognizable to a new generation of film @-@ goers . In January 2014 , shortly before his death , he attended the Sundance Film Festival to promote two films . In Anton Corbijn 's A Most Wanted Man , a thriller based on John le Carré 's novel , Hoffman played a German intelligence officer . His performance was praised by Xan Brooks as one of " terrific , lip @-@ smacking relish : full of mischief , anchored by integrity . " The other was God 's Pocket , the directorial debut of actor John Slattery , in which Hoffman played a thief . In November 2014 , nine months after his death , Hoffman was seen in The Hunger Games : Mockingjay – Part 1 . 
