Film
Mesmer
Austria · Canada · Germany · United Kingdom- Director
- Roger Spottiswoode
- Year
- 1994
Charlatan, Fraud... or Genius
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
Top cast
Alan Rickman
Franz Anton Mesmer
Amanda Ooms
Maria Theresia Paradies
Simon McBurney
Franz Mesmer junior
David Hemblen
Doctor Ingenhousz
Anna Thalbach
Francesca
Donal Donnelly
Doctor Vic d'Azyr
Gillian Barge
Frau Mesmer
David Burke
Doctor de Vauzesmes
Beatie Edney
Marie Antoinette
Peter Dvorsky
Doctor Deslon
István Szilágyi
Coachman
János Gosztonyi
Footman
Heinz Trixner
Baron de Horka
Petra Köberl
Baroness de Horka
Peter Janisch
Chancellor von Kaunitz
Caroline Holdaway
Felicity
Jan Rubeš
Professor Stoerk
Martin Schwab
Herr Paradies
Directed by
Roger Spottiswoode
Written by
Dennis Potter
Produced by
Robert D. Goodale, Lance W. Reynolds