
Roberto Faenza
Director


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 original correspondence. And since any exploration of others' lives inevitably leads to delving into one's own self, the two stories then finally interweave and are swept away in the passionate journey.
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Roberto Faenza
Director

Iain Glen
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung

Emilia Fox
Sabina Spielrein

Craig Ferguson
Richard Fraser

Jane Alexander
Emma Jung

Joanna David
Sabina's Mother

Michele Melega
Pavel

Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Zorin

Ivan Igogin
Ivan child
Bob Marchese
Prof. Bleuler
Fiorenza Brogi
Woman in cake shop

Caroline Ducey
Marie Franquin

Viktor Sergachyov
Ivan Ionov
Daria Galluccio
Renate
Anna Tiurina
Receptionist
V. Nakonechny
Stalin's son
Loretta Borrelli
Soprano
Cristina Romagnolo
Strings quartet
Alma Mandolesi
Strings quarter
Gianni Arduini
Writer