Prendimi l'anima (2002)

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, ... See full summary »

Director:

Roberto Faenza

Writers:

Aldo Carotenuto (book), Gianni Arduini (in collaboration with)

Stars:

Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson

4 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Iain Glen	...	Dr. Carl Gustav Jung
Emilia Fox	...	Sabina Spielrein
Craig Ferguson	...	Richard Fraser
Caroline Ducey	...	Marie Franquin
Jane Alexander	...	Emma Jung
Viktor Sergachyov	...	Ivan Ionov
Ivan Igogin	...	Ivan child
Joanna David	...	Sabina's Mother
Michele Melega	...	Pavel
Giovanni Lombardo Radice	...	Zorin
Daria Galluccio	...	Renate
Anna Tiurina	...	Receptionist (as Anna Chiurina)
Bob Marchese	...	Prof. Bleuler
V. Nakonechny	...	Stalin's son
Fiorenza Brogi	...	Woman in cake shop

Storyline

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...

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Plot Keywords:

russia | researcher | russian | death | hospital | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | Romance | War

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Italy]

Country:

Italy France UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 August 2004 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Soul Keeper

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jean Vigo Italia, Medusa Film, Leandro Burgay Publishing Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Sabina Spielrein: What can grow without rain? What can burn for years without end? Stone can grow without rain. But only love can burn for years without end.

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Soundtracks

Tumbalalaika
Performed by Faye Nepon
with Igor Poliestsky at the violin
and Mauro Grosse at the piano

User Reviews

Jung and his first lover/patient

Roberto Faenza has shot a very brave film, brave because shows an argument like this in the today's film panorama should be considered very brave. Nowadays, any film that enters into the psychoanalysis field and its world should be at least seen.

In this case, Faenza shot a non Italian film, with a multi national coproduction about a sort of small biography of Carl Jung the famous psychologist who has funded a personal current beside the one developed by Siegmund Freud. The film has some very good moments, specially when Jung is at his very beginning of his career in a house hospital in Zurich and meet Caroline Ducey as his very first patient. The developing of her illness and Jung's very modern approach compared to the rest of his colleagues in the hospital is really the best part of the film, this together with the start of their love "affair" worth the whole film. Unfortunately the rest of the film is not well driven, a sort of general and confused flashback brings the old scenes to a "today" situation through a "path" that a relative of Caroline is following in Russia with the help of some old books.

Rating: 6/10