''Hanussen'' is a 1955 West German

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by O. W. Fischer and Georg Marischka and starring Fischer,

Liselotte Pulver Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty a ...

and

Siegfried Lowitz Siegfried Lowitz (22 September 1914 – 27 June 1999) was a German actor. Born in Berlin, he played the Hauptkommissar ''Erwin Köster'' in the German television drama '' Der Alte''. Prior to his tenure as Hauptkommissar, he played a killer ...

. Bock & Bergfelder p.127 It was shot at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Fi ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and

Hermann Warm Hermann Warm was a German art director for films. Born in 1889 (died 1976) in Berlin, Germany, Warm was an important figure in the expressionist movement of the 1920s. Warm entered the German film industry in 1912 after working on-stage for a whil ...

Cast

* O. W. Fischer as

Erik Jan Hanussen Erik Jan Hanussen, born Hermann Steinschneider (2 June 1889, in Vienna – 25 March 1933, in Berlin), was an Austrian Jewish publicist, charlatan and clairvoyant performer. Acclaimed in his lifetime as a hypnotist, mentalist, occultist and as ...

as Hilde Graf *

Theodor Danegger Theodor Danegger (31 August 1891 – 11 October 1959) was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1932 and 1959. He was born in Lienz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria. Selected filmography * '' Without Witness ...

* Maria Dominique as Grace Coligny * Werner Finck as Der Sachverständige *

Klaus Kinski Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor, equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality. He appeared in over 130 film roles in a c ...

as Erik von Spazier a.k.a. Mirko * Reinhard Kolldehoff as Biberger * Rolf Kralovitz * Walter Ladengast *

Margrit Läubli Margrit Läubli (born 3 April 1928) is a Swiss dancer, stage, television and film actress, comedian, cabarettist and radio personality, starring usually in Swiss German language productions. Life and work Born and raised in Zürich, Canton of Z ...

as Tanzgirl * Ludwig Linkmann as Herr Scholz *

as Prosecutor * Erni Mangold as Priscilla Pletzak * Franz Muxeneder as Jaroslav Huber * Helmut Qualtinger as Ernst Röhm * Kai-Siegfried Seefeld (as Kai S. Seefeld) *

Hermann Speelmans Hermann Speelmans (14 August 1906 – 9 February 1960) was a German stage and film actor.Capua p. 120 Selected filmography * '' Her Dark Secret'' (1929) - Emil * ''Diana'' (1930) * '' There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You'' (1930) * '' Danton' ...

as Maus * Wastl Witt as Leopold Ebenseder

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

* 1955 films 1955 drama films German drama films West German films 1950s German-language films Films set in 1931 Films set in 1932 Films set in 1933 German black-and-white films Films directed by O. W. Fischer Films directed by Georg Marischka Films about magic and magicians Films shot at Bavaria Studios 1950s German films {{1950s-Germany-film-stub