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Hypnosis (1920 film)

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'Hypnosis' is a 1920 German silent film directed by Richard Eichberg and featuring Bla Lugosi. The film had an alternate title, 'Slave of a Foreign Will' ('Sklaven Fremdes Willens'). Lugosi played a strange hypnotist with heavy eye makeup (one of his earliest "weird roles") who puts a young girl named Claire Raven in a trance. The film was made in 1919, but only released in early January 1920.Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares by Gary D. Rhodes, with Richard Sheffield, (2007) Collectables/Alpha Video Publishers, ISBN 0-9773798-1-7 (hardcover) This was Lugosi's first German film, and it was here he met actress Violetta Napierska, the two having a romantic relationship while he lived in Germany.

Cast



* Lee Parry as Claire Raven

* Bla Lugosi as Professor Mors, the Hypnotist

* Gertrud de Lalsky

* Karl Halden as Wolf Woerner

* Marga Khler as Frau Steffens

* Violetta Napierska as Eva Hain

* Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Jack Weller

* Emil Rameau as Peter Hain

* Jenny Hhne as Frau Moran

* Gustav Birkholz as Senator Holbein

See also



* Bla Lugosi filmography

References




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