Hanussen: Hitler's Astrologer

Hanussen: Hitler's Astrologer

Hanussen
🎞️ Movie 140 min HU
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1988

He saw the future. And it was war.

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?

Cast

Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Schneider
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Eric Jan Hanussen
Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson
Dr. Bettelheim
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Ildikó Bánsági
Sister Betty
Walter Schmidinger
Walter Schmidinger
Propaganda chief
Károly Eperjes
Károly Eperjes
Captain Tibor Nowotny
Grazyna Szapolowska
Grazyna Szapolowska
Valery de la Meer
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Colette Pilz-Warren
Dagma
Adrianna Biedrzynska
Adrianna Biedrzynska
Wally
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György Cserhalmi
Count Trantow-Waldbach
Michal Bajor
Michal Bajor
Becker
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Zdenkó Tamássy
Composer
György Vukán
György Vukán
Composer
Lajos Koltai
Lajos Koltai
Cinematographer