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Hanussen
Original Title
Hanussen: Hitler's Astrologer- Director: István Szabó
- Writer: Péter Dobai; Erik Jan Hanussen
- Producer: Artur Brauner; Judit Sugár
CGiii Comment
Seemingly, this has homoerotic content - if so, it's very well hidden.
A sinister and subdued tale of stage clairvoyance - perhaps, a little too subdues to keep an audience's interest.
The insinuation that Hitler based his public persona on such performances is as ludicrous as the half-hearted, overly-acted conclusion.
Inexplicably, this received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film in 1989.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 & Characters
Klaus Maria Brandauer as Klaus Schneider / Eric Jan Hanussen;
Erland Josephson as Dr. Bettelheim;
Ildiko Bansagi as Sister Betty;
Walter Schmidinger as Propaganda chief;
Karoly Eperjes as Captain Tibor Nowotny;
Grazyna Szapolowska as Valery de la Meer;
Colette Pilz-Warren as Dagma;
Adrianna Biedrzynska as Wally;
Gyorgy Cserhalmi as Count Trantow-Waldbach;
Michal Bajor;
Jiri Adamira;
Robert Ratonyi;
Kalina Jedrusik;
Gabriela Kownacka;
Ewa Blaszczyk