The Phenomenon of Healing

The worldwide activities of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends

Three-part documentary film

Due to extraordinary healings, Bruno Gröning made headlines around the world in the 1950s. When he died in 1959, many believed that this phenomenon had ended. But on the contrary, people on all continents are still attaining help and healing, thanks to the teaching of Bruno Gröning. Evidently Bruno Gröning had known in advance what nobody else had suspected. Towards the end of his life he said, "What my opponents had to do, they have done completely and with this, they have reached the end. Likewise, I have done what I had to do, but it is only the beginning."

The documentary film The Phenomenon of Healing impressively documents events that happened after 1959. Viewers learn how the work of Bruno Gröning developed after his passing, and of the great extent of help and healing on the spiritual path that is still happening today ‒ irrespective of religious affiliation, skin color and culture. Fascinating interviews, professional comments by doctors and personal reports from Bruno Gröning Friends from many countries, give a broad overview of the worldwide activities of the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends.

For screening details go to: http://bruno-groening-film.org

Trailer (4 minutes)

At the side of Bruno Gröning

Grete Holzbauer's experiences with Bruno Gröning

A film by Thomas Eich

In the summer of 1950 the Austrian teacher Grete Holzbauer travels to a lecture of Bruno Gröning who was called by the press at the time the "miracle healer". She is merely accompanying her blind friend whom she wants to prevent from being treated by an alleged charlatan. When she returns home three days later, she herself is healed from three incurable ailments. Following this she experiences unbelievable things in her home country: sick people are healed when she merely tells them of her own healing and countless healings take place. Later she becomes a close collaborator of Bruno Gröning.

The three-part cinema documentary The Bruno Gröning phenomenon was followed by the film documentary At the side of Bruno Gröning depicting the historic events that occurred around this man. From the viewpoint of an initial sceptic, then healed person and later close collaborator, this film is a contemporary document of a special kind. Interviews, recordings of original sites, documentary material and re-enactments allow the spectator to experience the Bruno Gröning events very closely and give an insight into the spiritual coherence.

DVD available in the Internet shop of the Grete Häusler Ltd publishing house.

The Phenomenon Bruno Gröning

On the track of the "Miracle Healer"

Documentary film in three parts

In spring 1949, thousands of healing seekers streamed to the Westphalian town of Herford in Germany. In the fall of that same year a legion of misery of up to 30,000 people were drawn to the Traberhof in Rosenheim every day. All of them had but one goal: the famous “miracle healer” Bruno Gröning – as he was called by the press at the time. He was their last hope. Beaten down by the war, given up on by doctors, these people had just one wish: to become healthy, to be relieved of suffering and pain. Gröning was to help them … and the unbelievable happened.
The Phenomenon Bruno Gröning retraces the dramatic events of that time and follows the tracks of this unusual man. Honest, objective and insightful, the movie illuminates the individual stages of his life and work.

The production of the movie took nine years, 80 contemporary witnesses were interviewed, dramatic re-enactments were filmed and innumerable documents were copied. The outcome is a monumental motion picture. A historical document about one of the most outstanding personalities of his time.

DVD available in the Internet shop of the Grete Häusler Ltd publishing house,
for screening details go to: http://bruno-groening-film.org

Film clip (22 minutes)

Film projects

Making films in the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends

When Bruno Gröning became well-known in 1949 there was enormous media interest. Not only the press and radio reported but also the film newsreels. Already in late summer of 1949 the Munich film producer Rolf Engler completed an extensive film documentary about Bruno Gröning which ran in cinemas in October 1949 drawing big audiences. Bruno Gröning placed himself entirely and completely at the disposal of the film makers and hoped for a truthful report.

In the Bruno Gröning Circle of Friends film work began in the 80's. A friend filmed with his private VHS camera some conferences or community hours and placed the recordings at the disposal of other friends. Later this work was arranged such that today most conferences are filmed and can be borrowed for free in the form of DVDs.

Since the beginning of the 90's professional film recordings were also made in the Circle of Friends. Several shorter film documentaries were made about Bruno Gröning and events in the Circle of Friends as well as some longer full-evening films of cinema quality. Altogether more than a hundred interviews with contemporary witnesses from the 50's were recorded and several hundred interviews with friends and healed persons from the Circle of Friends.

An important part of this film work is the success reports. Since the year 1990 many interviews were held in which friends reported on how they found healing by spiritual means through the teaching of Bruno Gröning. Thus many impressive films originated from which spectators can draw faith and confidence and realize the significance of the events concerning Bruno Gröning.