The Soul Keeper (2003)

6.6 | Jan 17, 2003 (FR) | Drama, Romance, History | 01:30

suicide attempt switzerland holocaust (shoah) psychology sigmund freud biography psychiatric hospital hospital doctor love affair mental illness russian revolution (1917) doctor patient relationship forgotten stalinism 1920s 1940s 1930s carl jung woman spirit

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.