Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) on Netflix
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In 1885 Vienna, Sigmund Freud clashes with hospital head Theodore Meynert over hysteria. His mother Amalia urges him to study the condition, and in Paris he works with Dr. Jean-Marin Charcot.
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Plot summary
Sigmund Freud has finished his medical training in 1885 Vienna and cannot agree with Theodore Meynert, the head of his hospital, about hysteria being a disorder of the mind. His mother Amalia urges him on, and in Paris he studies the condition under Dr. Jean-Marin Charcot, who gets partial results with hypnosis. Back in Vienna he marries Martha Bernays and opens a practice, applying what he learned to patients with neuroses. One patient, the son of a soldier, stabs his father's uniform and fondles the mannequin beneath it, and the case drives Freud to unsettling dreams. Freud joins Josef Breuer, another doctor who has patients speak about their ailments under hypnosis, and the two take on Cecily Koertner.
Cast
- Alexander Mangoas Babinsky
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- Ol Abdouas (uncredited)
- Victor Beaumontas Dr. Guber (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
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- Jerry Goldsmith's Freud score was reused without his consent by Ridley Scott for the acid blood scene and other sequences in Alien (1979), which Goldsmith also scored; the tracks taken were the "Main Title", "Charcot's Show", "Desperate Case" and "The First Step".
- Jean-Paul Sartre gave John Huston a 95-page synopsis, then a five-hour script, then an eight-hour one; after the two quarrelled, Sartre withdrew his name from the film's credits.
- Marilyn Monroe was wanted for the role of Cecily Koertner by both John Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre, but she turned the offer down and Susannah York was cast as Cecily instead.
- John Huston cut Freud from over three hours to two hours and fifty minutes for the Production Code Authority, and the studio then removed another half-hour before release.
- John Huston cast Larry Parks as Josef Breuer partly to revive the actor's career after he had been blacklisted, and the part turned out to be Parks' last film role.
- Jerry Goldsmith's mostly atonal Freud score, with an electronic sequence by Henk Badings, brought him his first Oscar nomination.
