The Soul Keeper
2002 · 90 min · Director: Roberto Faenza
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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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The Soul Keeper (2002) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 30%, Love 25%, Empathy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Sadness30%
- Love25%
- Empathy20%
- Melancholy15%
- Awe10%
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Cast
Marie Franquin
Emma Jung
Ivan Ionov
Ivan as a child
Sabina's mother
Pavel
Renate
Professor Bleuler
Receptionist
Bakery lady
Sabina's father
Vasily Stalin
Soprano
Nurse
Nurse
Nurse
Details
- Directed by
- Roberto Faenza
- Written by
- Roberto Faenza, Gianni Arduini, François Cohen-Séat, Alessandro Defilippi
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2002
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Country
- Italy, France, United Kingdom
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Sadness
- Data updated
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