Summary: 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... (imdb)

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Genre: Drama

Country: Austria, Hungary, West Germany

Directed By: István Szabó

Written By: Péter Dobai, Erik Jan Hanussen

Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Károly Eperjes, Grazyna Szapolowska, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger

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