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Director:
John Huston
Writers:
Charles Kaufman (screenplay)
Charles Kaufman (story)
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Release Date:
12 December 1962 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama more
Plot:
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts 5 years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennan psychologist Freud (1856-1939)... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 nominations more
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Cast

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Montgomery Clift ... Sigmund Freud
Susannah York ... Cecily Koertner
Larry Parks ... Dr. Joseph Breuer
Susan Kohner ... Martha Freud
Eileen Herlie ... Frau Ida Koertner
Fernand Ledoux ... Dr. Charcot
David McCallum ... Carl von Schlossen
Rosalie Crutchley ... Frau Freud
David Kossoff ... Jacob Freud
Joseph Fürst ... Herr Jacob Koertner
Alexander Mango ... Babinsky
Leonard Sachs ... Brouhardier
Eric Portman ... Dr. Theodore Meynert

John Huston ... Narrator (voice)
Victor Beaumont ... Dr. Guber
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Freud: The Secret Passion (USA)
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Runtime:
120 min (theatrical version) | 140 min (original version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
West Germany:18 (nf) | Finland:K-16
Filming Locations:
Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Bavaria, Germany more
Company:
Universal International Pictures (UI) more

Fun Stuff

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Heather Chasen was a contender for the role of Magda. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in El don de la duda (2006) more

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The stuff of which nightmares are made, 26 April 2000
Author: char-30 (char@chariot.net.au) from Adelaide, Australia

The very underrated 1962 picture "Freud" shows again why its director John Huston was a masterful biographer and adapter of the works of others. As much as a movie is able to, he captures the slightly mad, intense world of psychoanalysis using its father as his dramatic subject. In fact, the film is a perfect and popular introduction into this the most personal of sciences. The film puts me in mind of Hitchcock's "Spellbound", Bergman's "Wild Strawberries", Lynch's "The Elephant Man" and Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" - all of which deal with the stuff of which nightmares are made.

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