John Huston
Freud
Edition 1999
140'
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1962
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Drama, Biography
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
John Huston
Composer:
Jerry Goldsmith
With:
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
This film is not a conventional biopic, but rather an intellectual detective story, in which the young doctor Sigmund Freud is shown tracking down, in himself as much as in others, the psychosexual source of the guilt which torments them. This unglamorous, intelligent account focuses on Freud’s early psychiatric theories and treatments and his struggle for their acceptance among Viennese medical colleagues. The screenplay takes the shape of a detective mystery, attempting to link various crises in Freud’s private and professional life with his theoretical conclusions, most often doing so within fascinating well-staged dream sequences.
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Credits
Director
John Huston
Composer
Jerry Goldsmith
With
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks
Scenario
Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Jean-Paul Sartre
Director of Photography
Douglas Slocombe
Editor
Ralph Kemplen
Producer
Wolfgang Reinhardt
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1962