In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
Acting
O.W. Fischer's slippery charisma makes you root for a monster.
Direction
Fischer directing himself into moral freefall—meta or mess? Both.
Writing
Hanussen's real Jewish heritage becomes the script's ticking bomb.
Director
O.W. Fischer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Hanussen actually did advise Hitler and was murdered by the SA in 1933—this film fictionalizes his survival for dramatic irony.
Made just ten years after WWII, this Austrian production dared to examine Jewish complicity narratives that most 1950s cinema avoided entirely.
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