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Freud the Secret Passion, also known as Freud, (1962
1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
) is a American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 biographical film
Biographical film

File:Soviet Union-1964-stamp-Chapayev .jpgA biographical motion picture—often portmanteau biopic—is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people....
 drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
 based on the life Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, directed by John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
. Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
 stars as Freud.

pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to treat hysteric
Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood....
 patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis
Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a mental state or set of attitudes usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions....
 to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses
Neurosis

Neurosis , also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, is a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress, but, unlike a psychosis or some personality disorders, does not prevent or affect rational thought....
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Freud the Secret Passion, also known as Freud, (1962
1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
) is a American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 biographical film
Biographical film

File:Soviet Union-1964-stamp-Chapayev .jpgA biographical motion picture—often portmanteau biopic—is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people....
 drama
Drama

Drama is the specific Mode of fiction Mimesis in performance. The term comes from a Ancient Greek word meaning "Action " , which is derived from "to do" ....
 based on the life Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, directed by John Huston
John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
. Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
 stars as Freud.

Plot Outline

This pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to treat hysteric
Histrionic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder is defined by the American Psychiatric Association as a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood....
 patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis
Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a mental state or set of attitudes usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions....
 to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses
Neurosis

Neurosis , also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, is a term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress, but, unlike a psychosis or some personality disorders, does not prevent or affect rational thought....
. His main patient in the film is a young woman who refused to drink water and is plagued by a recurrent nightmare.

The story compresses the years it took Freud (Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
) to develop his psychoanalytic theories into what seems like a few months. Nearly every neurotic symptom imaginable manifests itself in one patient, Cecily Koertner (Susannah York
Susannah York

Susannah York is an Academy Award-nominated England film and television actor....
). She is sexually repressed, hysterical, and fixated on her father. Freud worked extensively with her, developing one hypothesis after another. Also shown is Freud's home life with his wife Martha (Susan Kohner
Susan Kohner

Susan Kohner is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia....
), whom he alternately discusses his theories with and patronizes when she reads one of his papers.

Collaboration of Huston with Sartre

Asked in 1958 to write the script by the director John Huston, Jean Paul Sartre wrote the first synopsis of some 95 typed pages. Huston accepted this, and Sartre went to work on a shooting script. Like the synopsis, it was too long. Sartre was asked to chop this first version, which he did. The result was that the revamped version was longer still. In any case, Sartre and Huston could not get along, so the French philosopher asked for his name to be removed from the credits. However, the film Freud still shows faint signs of Sartre's work on the script.

Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
 nearly got to play the part of one of the more colorfully hysterical patients, Cecily.

Cast

  • Montgomery Clift
    Montgomery Clift

    Edward Montgomery Clift was an United Statesn film actor. He was known for his brooding, sensitive, working-class character roles, and received four Academy Award nominations during his career....
     ... Sigmund Freud
  • Susannah York
    Susannah York

    Susannah York is an Academy Award-nominated England film and television actor....
    ... Cecily Koertner
  • Larry Parks
    Larry Parks

    Larry Parks , was an United States Theater and movie actor. His birth name is believed to have been Samuel Klusman Lawrence Parks. His career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist Party USA cell, an admission that led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios....
     ... Dr. Joseph Breuer
  • Susan Kohner
    Susan Kohner

    Susan Kohner is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia....
     ... Martha Freud
  • Eileen Herlie
    Eileen Herlie

    Eileen Herlie was a Scottish-American actress....
     ... Frau Ida Koertner
  • Fernand Ledoux ... Dr. Charcot
  • David McCallum
    David McCallum

    David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish people actor and the son of concertmaster violinist David McCallum, Sr.. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, on the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Ducky Mallard on the series NCIS ....
     ... Carl von Schlossen
  • Rosalie Crutchley
    Rosalie Crutchley

    Rosalie Crutchley was an England actress. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Crutchley was best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful career in the theatre and in films, making her stage debut in 1938 and her screen debut in 1947....
     ... Frau Freud
  • David Kossoff
    David Kossoff

    David Kossoff was a British actor. Following the death of his son Paul Kossoff, a rock music musician, he became an anti-drug campaigner. In 1971 he was also actively involved in the Nationwide Festival of Light protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex and violence, and advocating the teaching of Christ as the key to re-establis...
     ... Jacob Freud
  • Joseph Fürst ... Herr Jacob Koertner
  • Alexander Mango ... Babinsky
  • Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs

    Leonard Sachs was a United Kingdom actor.Sachs was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal . He had many television and film roles from the 1930s to the 1980s, including Mowbray in the 1950 version of Richard II , John Wesley in the 1954 film of the same name and Lord Mount Severn in East Lynne from 1976....
     ... Brouhardier
  • Eric Portman
    Eric Portman

    Eric Portman was a distinguished English people stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s....
     ... Dr. Theodore Meynert
  • John Huston
    John Huston

    John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
     ... Narrator (voice)
  • Victor Beaumont ... Dr. Guber
  • Allan Cuthbertson
    Allan Cuthbertson

    Allan Cuthbertson was a naturalised British-Australian actor.He was married to Gertrude Willner, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, who had been a lawyer originally but became a school teacher in England....
     ... Wilkie
  • Maria Perschy
    Maria Perschy

    Maria Perschy was an Austrian actress.Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting....
    ... Magda
  • Moira Redmond
    Moira Redmond

    Moira Redmond was a United Kingdom actress.She was born in Bognor Regis, England, the daughter of the actress Molly Redmond and her husband who was a stage manager....
     ... Nora Wimmer


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