Wolf Messing: Seen Through Time

Messing was born in the last year of the XIX century, became one of the main mysterious and fateful personalities of the twentieth century ^[2] . A boy from a poor Jewish family was forced to start an independent life early. He went to Germany, where he undertook the most dirty work. His supernatural telepathic abilities were discovered quite by accident, by two Jews, under almost mystical circumstances (one of them, the doctor, discovered that the "dead" boy was not dead). They begin to promote it, and Messing holds his first public appearances in the Berlin panopticon. The audience is delighted. Weimar Germany , infringed on the aftermath of the First World War, was a place that attracted charlatans and mystics, great scientists and maniacs.

Soon, the chaos of the Weimar Republic was replaced by the iron system of the Third Reich . And here Messing is in demand as never before. In 1937 , when the Third Reich is at the zenith of its glory, Messing predicts a “millennial Reich” a swift and inglorious ending in the event of an attack on the East . Believing in its own prediction, with Hitler's capture of Poland, Messing crosses the border of the Soviet Union . So life was divided into two equal halves.

In the Soviet Union, Wolf Messing is listed as a hypnotist and magician, is both an experimenter and an experimental, and unofficially becomes a stargazer of Stalin himself. He kept secrets that there was no one to share with, secrets that died with him.

• Evgeny Knyazev - Wolf G. Messing
• Alexander Khinkis - Wolf Messing in childhood
• Roman Grechishkin - Wolf Messing in his youth
• Alexander Klyukvin - Ilya Petrovich
• Tara Amirkhanova - Aida Mikhailovna Messing-Rappoport, wife of Messing
• Veronika Itskovich - Sarah, the mother of Messing
• Vasily Savinov - Grigory, father of Messing
• Mikhail Gorevoy - Eric Hanussen
• Vladimir Dolinsky - Peter Zellmeister, impresario Messinga
• Andrey Ilyin - Albert Einstein
• Boris Plotnikov - Sigmund Freud
• Vitaly Kudryavtsev - Konstantin Kovalev, pilot
• Yuri Nifontov - Dr. Karl Abel
• Ivan Agapov - Dr. Lev Kobak
• Roman Pechersky - Paul Vogt
• Victor Rakov - Henry Canaris
• Mark Rudinstein - Osip Efremovich
• Alexey Petrenko - Joseph Stalin
• Georgy Teslya-Gerasimov - Vasily Stalin
• Vladimir Shcherbakov - Lavrentiy Beria
• Vladimir Chuprikov - Nikita Khrushchev
• Oleg Chernigov - Leonid Brezhnev
• Sarkis Amirzyan - Anastas Mikoyan
• Sergey Klanovsky - Mikhail Suslov
• Dmitry Yachevsky - Adolf Hitler
• Irina Sokolova - Joseph Goebbels
• Vasily Belokopytov - agent of the NKVD
• Yuri Shlykov - Victor Abakumov
• Lyubov Rumyantseva - Raisa Andreevna
• Pyotr Yurchenkov - junior - cadet of intelligence school
• Alexander Luchinin - Military
• Edita Herbus - Anna Vogt
• Andrey Podubinsky - episode

• Script writer: Eduard Volodarsky
• Directors: Vladimir Krasnopolsky , Valery Uskov
• Director of Photography: Timur Zelma
• Composer: Evgeny Shiryaev
• Artists:
  • Ivan Rogoten
  • Vladislav Travinsky
• Producers:
  • Anatoly Chizhikov
  • Sergey Danielyan
  • Aram Movsesyan
  • Ruben Dishdishyan

In general, the plot of the film is completely based on the legendary and authentically unconfirmed biography of Messing. Shown are meetings (which, most likely, weren’t in reality) with Einstein , Freud , Hitler and Stalin , an allegedly escaped Messing escape from a German prison by hypnotizing guards, etc., was noted, which was noted by many critics of the film ^{[3] [4 ] ] [5] [6]} . In addition, the film has many historical and visual inaccuracies, including the very date of Messing's birth.

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