FREUD ON SCREEN

The production of dramas about him has only accelerated with the passage of time

Illustration by Austin Ratner


 

John Huston 
Freud: The Secret Passion 
Starring Montgomery Clift as Freud

 

 

Herbert Ross 
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 
Alan Arkin as Freud in an adaptation by Nicholas Meyer of his novel expanding the Sherlock Holmes universe

 

 

Nanni Moretti 
Sogni d’oro 
Story of an Italian film student who makes a movie called Freud’s Mother, featuring a depiction of Freud in the film within the film

 

 

Moira Armstrong
Freud 
BBC miniseries with Freud played by David Suchet

 

 

Hugh Brody 
Nineteen Nineteen
 
Frank Finlay as voice of Freud

 

 

Felix and Percy Adlon 
Mahler on the Couch
 
Karl Markovics as Freud

 

 

David Cronenberg
A Dangerous Method 
Viggo Mortensen as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung

 

 

David Ruhm
Therapy for a Vampire
Karl Fischer as Freud

 

 

Marvin Kren
Freud
Netflix series starring Robert Finster as Freud investigating a murder conspiracy

 

 

Matthew Brown
Freud’s Last Session
Anthony Hopkins as Freud debating the existence of God with C.S. Lewis on the eve of World War II (in production)

 

Published in issue 57.3, Fall/Winter 2023

 

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