Hanussen

• 6.1
• 1988-05-20
• 140 minutes mins

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?

Starring:

Klaus Maria Brandauer (Klaus Schneider / Eric Jan Hanussen) Erland Josephson (Dr. Bettelheim) Ildikó Bánsági (Sister Betty) Walter Schmidinger (Propaganda Chief) Károly Eperjes (Tibor Nowotny) Grażyna Szapołowska (Valery de la Meer) Colette Pilz-Warren (Dagma) Adrianna Biedrzyńska (Wally) György Cserhalmi (Count Trantow-Waldbach) Michał Bajor (Becker)

Director:

István Szabó

Writer:

Péter Dobai István Szabó