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 - I Ivan Igogin Ivan as a child
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Joanna David Sabina's mother -
Michele Melega Pavel -
Giovanni Lombardo Radice Zorin - D Daria Galluccio Renate
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Bob Marchese Professor Bleuler
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