This movie is full of historical unthruthes. So was the real Hanussens birth name "Herman `Herschel` Steinschneider", he was a Jew and he was not a real truthsayer, but a impostor, what he confessed by himself in a book, in which he is also telling his tricks. By the way: It was published, before (!) his major carreer started.
shareYeah "this" Hanussen has very little to do with the real one. Perhaps the real Hanussen is better depicted in Werner Herzog's "Invincible".
Anyway IMO István Szabó only used the real character as a pretext to tell a story about the period, place and situations that allowed Hitler and the Nazis to reach the power.
That's how I see it. If I want to know more about the real Hannusen I'd read a biography on him. But this movie is much more. It's a great portrait of Europe (in particular Germany) between the World Wars.
Good points. But I think the audience usually assumes, that the things in the movie are true.
"Hooters, hooters, yum yum yum,
Hooters, hooters, on a girl that´s dumb!"
The Bundy credo
But I think the audience usually assumes, that the things in the movie are true.
Yes, I agree, Kinematico. It’s a film, a piece of art and not a history thesis.