Mesmer (film)

Mesmer

Directed by	Roger Spottiswoode
Produced by	Robert Goodale
Written by	Dennis Potter
Starring	Alan Rickman Donal Donnelly Amanda Ooms Simon McBurney
Music by	Michael Nyman
Cinematography	Elemér Ragályi
Edited by	Susan Shipton
Distributed by	First Look Studios Cineplex Odeon Films (Canada)
Release dates	August 25, 1994
Running time	107 min.
Country	Austria, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
Language	English
Budget	~£5,600,000

Mesmer is a 1994 Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical film directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a script by Dennis Potter. It stars Alan Rickman as Franz Anton Mesmer and depicts his radical new ways as a pioneering physician.

Plot

In 18th century Vienna, Franz Anton Mesmer believes he is able to heal patients by drawing out something unique from inside his patients. However, the only ones who seem to have improvements are the young ladies he helps. His controversial methods and their consequences lead him to leave Vienna and head to Paris. However, once there, he takes advantage of his unique methods to provide entertainment, which he is censured for by other doctors.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Alan Rickman	Franz Anton Mesmer
Amanda Ooms	Maria Theresa Paradies
Donal Donnelly	Doctor
David Burke	Doctor
David Hemblen	Dr. Ingehousz
Simon McBurney	Franz
Gillian Barge	Frau Mesmer
Peter Dvorsky	Dr. Deslon
Anna Thalbach	Francisca
Flóra Kádár

Details

The movie was released on videocassette by First Look and in Canada in 1994 by Cineplex Odeon and MCA. In 2000, the movie was released on DVD by Image Entertainment, but has been discontinued since. As of January 3, 2010, there have been no plans made to release a new DVD.

This movie was shot in Vienna, Austria with the interior shots filmed at Esterházy Palace in Fertõd, Hungary.

Mesmer was released in August 1994 in Canada, at the Montréal World Film Festival.

Quotes

Franz Anton Mesmer: (with sarcasm) Professor Doctor Stoerk, can I help you at all? I deal with most derangements, sir.

Awards

Awards
Award	Year	Result	Award	Recipient
Montréal World Film Festival	1994	Won	Best Actor	Alan Rickman

External links

Works by Dennis Potter

Bibliography

Television plays	Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965) Emergency – Ward 9 (1966) Shaggy Dog (1968) A Beast with Two Backs (1968) Moonlight on the Highway (1969) Son of Man (1969) Traitor (1971) Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) Joe's Ark (1974) Double Dare (1976) Where Adam Stood (1976) Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Blade on the Feather (1980) Rain on the Roof (1980) Cream in My Coffee (1980) Brimstone and Treacle (1987)

Television serials	Casanova (1971) Pennies From Heaven (1978) Tender Is the Night (1985) The Singing Detective (1986) Christabel (1988) Blackeyes (1989) Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) Karaoke (1996) Cold Lazarus (1996)

Films	Pennies from Heaven (1981) Brimstone and Treacle (1982) Gorky Park (1983) Dreamchild (1985) Track 29 (1988) Secret Friends (1991) Mesmer (1993) The Singing Detective (2003)

Novels	Hide and Seek (1973) Pennies from Heaven (1981) Ticket to Ride (1986) Blackeyes (1987)

Films directed by Roger Spottiswoode

Terror Train (1980)
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981)
Under Fire (1983)
The Best of Times (1986)
The Last Innocent Man (1987)
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Air America (1990)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
And the Band Played On (1993)
Mesmer (1994)
Hiroshima (1995)
Murder Live! (1997)
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The 6th Day (2000)
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole (2003)
Spinning Boris (2003)
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
Beyond Right and Wrong (2012)
Midnight Sun (2014)
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)

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