Mesmer

FILM


Credits:

Directed by Roger Spottiswoode

Written by Dennis Potter

Produced by David Bowie

Co-Produced by Susan Cavan, Andras Hamori, David E. Jones, Alexander von Eschwege

Executive Produced by Ingrid Windisch

Alan Rickman as Franz Anton Mesmer
Anna Thalbach as Francesca
Donal Donnelly as Doctor
David Burke as Doctor
Peter Dvorsky as Dr. Deslon  

A biography of the eighteenth-century Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of “animal magnetism”.