Hanussen: Hitler's Astrologer
Réalisation:
István SzabóPhotographie:
Lajos KoltaiActeurs·trices:
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Károly Eperjes, Grazyna Szapolowska, Adrianna Biedrzyńska (plus)Résumés(1)
En 1918, Karl Schroeder, un soldat allemand, est blessé au combat. Il se retrouve à l’hôpital du Dr. Bettelheim, qui a recours à l’hypnose pour le guérir de ses crises d’angoisses et de ses cauchemars. Karl devient rapidement un adepte de cette technique. Étonné par le talent d’hypnotiseur de Karl et par son don de prédire l’avenir, Bettelheim le fait monter sur scène. Les prédictions de Karl, connu alors sous le nom d’Erik Jan Hanussen, font de lui une attraction dans le Berlin de l’après-guerre. Mais lorsqu’il prédit qu’Adolf Hitler deviendra chancelier en 1933, il se retrouve propulsé dans l’arène politique. (Doriane Films)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Hanussen is the third film of a loose trilogy - it was preceded by the films Mephisto and Colonel Redl. I have a feeling that the essential aspects have already been covered by István Szabó in his previous works, and in Hanussen, it to a large extent just repeats itself. Brandauer is still great, but the screenplay is, from my point of view, slightly weaker. Perhaps it is also because I have thoroughly explored the era of the rise of fascism through other films, and the screenplay deviates from the real fate of the well-known clairvoyant in a difficult-to-digest way for me. Overall impression: 65%.
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As the culmination of Szabó-Brandauer's loose trilogy, Hanussen brings together the Austro-Hungarian period and the Third Reich in an arc. Given the time period that it is about and the way the film is told, the film version of Hanussen is quite ideal for me. Post-war decadence in its heyday and its subsequent displacement by new aesthetic criteria never ceases to fascinate me. Brandauer is now also surrounded by more interesting faces, such as György Cserhalmi or Jiří Adamíra, which ensures that this is not just another Brandauer solo. In the end, the mysterious haze that shrouds the real Moravian Jew Hermann Steinschneider (1888-1933) provides the greatest opportunity for dreamlike experiences.
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