Jump to content

The Soul Keeper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soul Keeper
Directed byRoberto Faenza
Screenplay byRoberto Faenza, Gianni Arduini, Alessandro Defilippi, Elda Ferri, Hugh Fleetwood, Giampiero Rigosi
CinematographyMaurizio Calvesi
Edited byMassimo Fiocchi
Music byAndrea Guerra
Production
companies
Jean Vigo Italia, Les Films du Centaure, Cowboy Films
Distributed byMedusa Distribuzione
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesItaly, France, United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Soul Keeper (Italian: Prendimi l'anima; French: L'âme en jeu) is a 2002 Italian-French-British romance-drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is loosely based on real life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung.[1][2]

Plot

[edit]

Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both in Moscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life together, starting with her hospitalisation in Zürich in 1904 for a serious form of hysteria.

There the patient meets the young doctor Carl Gustav Jung, who, using the new methods of psychoanalysis developed by Freud, will be able to cure her. Sabina begins to take an interest in psychoanalysis herself, and begins an intense love affair with Jung. However, discovering that her beloved Carl, married and with two children, although in love with her is trapped to moral doubts, Sabina provokes a scandal. The two finally separate.

Cast

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  2. ^ Luciana Sica (14 January 2003). "L' anima di Sabina Spielrein". La Repubblica. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
[edit]