The Soul Keeper

The Soul Keeper

2003 · 90 min · ★ 6.6 · Drama, Romance, History

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Directed by Roberto Faenza · Written by Roberto Faenza

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Iain Glen Carl Jung
Emilia Fox Sabina Spielrein
Craig Ferguson Richard Fraser
Caroline Ducey Marie Franquin
Jane Alexander Emma Jung
Viktor Sergachyov Ivan Ionov
Ivan Igogin Ivan as a child
Joanna David Sabina's mother
Michele Melega Pavel
Giovanni Lombardo Radice Zorin
Daria Galluccio Renate
Bob Marchese Professor Bleuler

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