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?
Klaus Maria Brandauer
as Klaus Schneider / Eric Jan Hanussen
Erland Josephson
as Dr. Bettelheim
Ildikó Bánsági
as Sister Betty
Walter Schmidinger
as Propaganda Chief
Károly Eperjes
as Tibor Nowotny
Grażyna Szapołowska
as Valery de la Meer
Colette Pilz-Warren
as Dagma
Adrianna Biedrzyńska
as Wally
György Cserhalmi
as Count Trantow-Waldbach
Michał Bajor
as Becker
Jiří Adamíra
as Rattinger
Róbert Rátonyi
as Prof. Gábor
