Leon Askin Movies

Split into three episodes, this film examines extrasensory perception, reincarnation and telepathy.

An unusual love story between a farmer from a small village and a 25-year-old recently released prisoner from Vienna. First he wins the acceptance and sympathy of the villagers before his past catches up with him.

A German police man thinks his wife is a call girl.

Following the failure of the marriage of the influential publisher Helmreich and his wife, Helmreich wins the suit for the custody of their 6-year old son. His former wife, Uschi, robbed of the meaning of her life, commits an act of desperation.

"The art of the stage actor and even of a stage director is evanescent. Nothing remains of it but a 'still' photograph or two (...) Not everyone can be a genius. Somebody has to be a Leon Askin - and that's me." Leon Askin, born in Vienna in 1907 , fled from the Nazis to the USA in 1940. The...