

Hanussen
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 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

Jiří Adamíra
Rattinger

Róbert Rátonyi
Prof. Gábor

Gabriela Kownacka
Wife of Propaganda Chief

Ewa Błaszczyk
Hennie Stahl

Péter Andorai
Fabian
Storyline
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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