Mesmer
Aug 25 1994
•2h 47m
•Drama
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
Cast
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Alan Rickman
Franz Anton Mesmer
Amanda Ooms
Maria Theresia Paradies
Simon McBurney
Franz Mesmer junior
David Hemblen
Doctor Ingenhousz
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