A Dangerous Method
“Why deny what you desire the most.”
Director
David Cronenberg
Screenplay
Christopher Hampton
David Cronenberg directs this restrained period drama about the explosive intellectual and personal triangle between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled young patient whose treatment and eventual affair with Jung precipitated the historic rupture between psychology's two founding fathers. Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, and Keira Knightley deliver precisely calibrated performances that physicalize the conflict between repression and desire at the heart of early psychoanalysis. The film is a cerebral chamber piece that finds its tension not in violence but in the dangerous power of ideas—and the men who weaponize them against each other.
Release
Sep 30, 2011
Budget
$15M
Country
Switzerland
Revenue
$27M
Cast
Keira Knightley
Sabina Spielrein
Viggo Mortensen
Sigmund Freud
Michael Fassbender
Carl Jung
Sarah Gadon
Emma Jung
Vincent Cassel
Otto Gross
André Hennicke
Professor Eugen Bleuler
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
Sándor Ferenczi
Mignon Remé
Jung's Secretary
Mareike Carrière
Food Nurse
Franziska Arndt
Bath Nurse
Wladimir Matuchin
Nikolai Spielrein
Anna Thalbach
Bathtub Patient
Sarah Marecek
Orchard Nurse
Björn Geske
Orderly
Markus Haase
Orderly
Christian Serritiello
Ship's Officer
Clemens Giebel
Ship's Steward
Jost Grix
Leonhard Seif
Severin von Hoensbroech
Johan van Ophuijsen
Katharina Palm
Martha Freud
Nina Azizi
Minna Bernays
Julie Chevallier
Anna Freud
Cynthia Cosima
Sophie Freud
Mirko Guckeisen
Ernst Freud
Andrea Magro
Jean Freud
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