Freud: The Secret Passion

Freud The Secret Passion, also known as Freud, is a 1962 American biographical film drama based on the life of the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, directed by John Huston and starring Montgomery Clift as Freud. The original script was written by JeanPaul Sartre, but Sartre withdrew his involvement in the film after disagreements with Huston, and his name was removed from the credits. The film was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.

The story compresses the years it took Freud Montgomery Clift 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. She is sexually repressed, hysterical, and fixated on her father. Freud works extensively with her, developing one hypothesis after another. Also shown is Freuds home life with his wife Martha Susan Kohner, whom he alternately discusses his theories with and patronizes when she reads one of his papers.In 1958, John Huston decided to make a film about the life of the young Sigmund Freud, and asked JeanPaul Sartre to write a summary of a projected scenario. Sartre submitted a synopsis of 95 pages, which was accepted, but later completed a finished script that, if filmed, would have amounted to a running time of five hours, and that Huston considered far too long. Huston suggested cuts, but Sartre submitted an even longer script of eight hours, justifying the even longer version by saying, On peut faire un film de quatre heures sil sagit de Ben Hur, mais le public de Texas ne supporterait pas quatre heures de complexes We can make a film of four hours in the case of Ben Hur, but the Texas public couldnt stand four hours of complexes.. Huston and Sartre quarrelled, and Sartre withdrew his name from the films credits. ........

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