| The Soul Keeper | |
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| Directed by | Roberto Faenza |
| Screenplay by | Roberto Faenza, Gianni Arduini,Alessandro Defilippi,Elda Ferri,Hugh Fleetwood, Giampiero Rigosi |
| Cinematography | Maurizio Calvesi |
| Edited by | Massimo Fiocchi |
| Music by | Andrea Guerra |
Production companies | Jean Vigo Italia, Les Films du Centaure, Cowboy Films |
| Distributed by | Medusa Distribuzione |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Countries | Italy,France,United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Soul Keeper (Italian:Prendimi l'anima;French:L'âme en jeu) is a 2002 Italian-French-Britishromance-drama film directed byRoberto Faenza. It is loosely based on real life events ofRussianpsychoanalyst andphysicianSabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalystCarl Gustav Jung.[1][2]
Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both inMoscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life together, starting with her hospitalisation inZürich in 1904 for a serious form ofhysteria.
There the patient meets the young doctorCarl Gustav Jung, who, using the new methods ofpsychoanalysis developed byFreud, will be able to cure her. Sabina begins to take an interest in psychoanalysis herself, and begins an intense love affair with Jung. However, discovering that her beloved Carl, married and with two children, although in love with her is trapped to moral doubts, Sabina provokes a scandal. The two finally separate.