My Name Was Sabina Spielrein (2002)
Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Eva Österberg	...	Sabina Spielrein
	Lasse Almebäck	...	Carl Gustav Jung
	Mercedez Csampai	...	Sabina Spielrein as a child
	Palle Granditsky
	Natalia Usmanova	...	Demented Woman
	Katarina Rubensson
	Jack Weil
	Tove Wáhlin
	Isabelle Larsson Knobel
	Anna Ringström
	Hamar Kupferschmidt
	Maria Thorgevsky	...	Sabina Spielrein (voice)
	Dan Wiener	...	Carl Gustav Jung (voice)
	Helmut Vogel	...	Sigmund Freud (voice)
	Irina Venieri	...	Mother (voice)

Storyline

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the rest, she didn't vanish forever from history. Elisabeth Márton's film relates, restages and remembers the tragic story of Spielrein's life as gleaned from a box of her papers discovered in 1977 in the cellar of Geneva's former Institute of Psychology. Spielrein was a young Russian-Jewish woman of 18 when she arrived in August 1904 at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich where Carl Gustav Jung had set up shop. She was his first patient. He was 29 and married. Her cathexis was rapid and she formed an intense attachment to her young doctor, who seems to have reciprocated. But after Sigmund Freud's note (above) on the nefarious nature of females, the doctors hatched the theory of counter-transference to explain their feelings... Written by B. Ruby Rich  

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