The Soul Keeper
(2002)
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The Soul Keeper
(2002)
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| Iain Glen | ... | ||
| Emilia Fox | ... | ||
| Craig Ferguson | ... | ||
| Caroline Ducey | ... | ||
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Jane Alexander | ... | |
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Viktor Sergachyov | ... | |
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Ivan Igogin | ... |
Ivan child
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| Joanna David | ... |
Sabina's Mother
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Michele Melega | ... | |
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Giovanni Lombardo Radice | ... | |
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Daria Galluccio | ... | |
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Anna Tiurina | ... |
Receptionist
(as Anna Chiurina)
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Bob Marchese | ... |
Prof. Bleuler
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V. Nakonechny | ... |
Stalin's son
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Fiorenza Brogi | ... | |
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and for the first time experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Based on recently exposed secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein, this true story begins with the Spielrein's healing, closely related to her passionate love affair with Jung, followed by her return to post-revolutionary Russia ? where she became a psychoanalyst herself founding the famous White School ? and her sudden death in 1942, the victim of Nazi violence. The investigation of this story becomes an essential component of the film via two modern researchers, Marie, a young French scholar, and Fraser, a historian from Glasgow, who follow Sabina's life from Zurich to Moscow to Rostow, leading to the discovery of missing portions of the... Written by Harmony Gold USA, Inc.
Very confused and confusing movie... as if the director (served by a terrible screenplay) couldn't decide what to do with it... Reflections on the healing power of love (and on its destroying power as well?)? Passionality and personality against social rules? Historical glimpse on the late 800 and early 900's psychiatry and the birth of dynamic psychoterapies (on which nothing short that a vague attention to the unconscious and the enphasis on the human relationship - as an attempt to humanize said psychiatry - is said... )? Moreover the counterpoint story in contemporary times, short of clarifying those themes, seems only to add cliché to cliché...
I'd say Emilia Fox could have worked as Sabine Spielrein, BUT in another movie with another director... Not so bad Iain Glen as the esteemed young Carl Gustav Jung, even if the real one was a much more complex person, deserving to be treated with respect and care by able hands...
Thumbs down to Jane Alexander, who should return to host TV games on Italian TV where she started...