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Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks

Vienna, 1885. Dr. Sigmund Freud, a neurologist, uses hypnotism to treat hysteria, and finds new interest in the case of a boy whose hatred of his father springs from incestuous love of his mother, a f...( read more  read more... )ailing which Freud finds in himself.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 20 min.

Directed by: John Huston

Release Date: December 12, 1962

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  • merlynsprankling
    September 14, 2009
    merlynsprankling
    The idea of making a film about Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the legendary founder of psychoanalysis, is not immediately attractive.

    The film is a great drama, but closet drama, in which most of the action takes place within the mind. The question is how to translate this action...( read more) into a viable script that would produce a film from which audiences would not flee?

    Film makers discovered three ways to make the tragicomedy of Freud's heroic years filmworthy. First, they depict Freud thinking to himself as he stalks around Vienna at night, in top hat and overcoat. This technique of dramatizing historic though processes led them to have Montgomery Clift, who portrays Freud, do a great deal of staring.

    What Freud does relatively well is depict a brilliant man's search--even though his discoveries, like Charcot's treatments of hysterics, come a bit too easily and too casually.

    However, for anyone eager to establish a useful timetable of early psychoanalysis, a good biography remains indispensable...
  • hypathio7
    August 11, 2008
    hypathio7
    nominated for best picture at the golden globes
  • bertaelvis8
    May 13, 2007
    bertaelvis8
    excellent performance by Clift.

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