Hanussen (1988)

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?

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Top billed cast

Klaus Maria BrandauerKlaus Schneider / Eric Jan Hanussen
Erland JosephsonDr. Bettelheim
Ildikó BánságiSister Betty
Walter SchmidingerPropaganda Chief
Károly EperjesTibor Nowotny
Grażyna SzapołowskaValery de la Meer
Colette Pilz-WarrenDagma
Adrianna BiedrzyńskaWally
György CserhalmiCount Trantow-Waldbach
Michał BajorBecker

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