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Freud

Freud

"A portrait of the great psychoanalyst."

Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

Each episode begins with Freud and his family in London, where they had fled from Vienna in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss, leading up to Freud's death a little over a year later. The rest of the episodes are told mainly in flashbacks to key moments in Freud's life and career

Created ByCarey Harrison
StatusEnded
Original NameFreud
First Air DateSeptember 14, 1984
Last Air DateOctober 19, 1984
Seasons1
Episodes6
Episode Runtime1h 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production Countries
Production Companies
NetworksBBC Two
S01E06

The World As Dream

London, 1939: Psychoanalysis flourishes in America and Freud's works are sought worldwide: his international standing has far surpassed his father's simple plea that he make professor. But in the prophet's own land, it is a different matter. More cautious friends have persuaded the elderly Sigmund to take refuge in England and it is there that he completes the final, revealing session of self-analysis.

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