The Soul Keeper
{{Infobox film
| name = The Soul Keeper
| image = The Soul Keeper.jpg
| caption =
| director = Roberto Faenza
| writer =
| screenplay = Roberto Faenza, Gianni Arduini, Alessandro Defilippi, Elda Ferri, Hugh Fleetwood, Giampiero Rigosi
| starring =
| music = Andrea Guerra
| cinematography = Maurizio Calvesi
| editing = Massimo Fiocchi
| country = Italy, France, United Kingdom
| language = English
| studio = Jean Vigo Italia, Les Films du Centaure, Cowboy Films
| distributor = Medusa Distribuzione
| released = {{Film date|2002}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
}}
The Soul Keeper ({{langx|it|Prendimi l'anima}}; {{langx|fr|L'âme en jeu}}) is a 2002 Italian-French-British romance-drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is loosely based on real life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and notably on her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung.{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti|date=2010 |publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=978-8860736260}}{{cite news|last=Luciana Sica|title=L' anima di Sabina Spielrein|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2003/01/14/anima-di-sabina-spielrein.html?ref=search|accessdate=16 February 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=14 January 2003}}
Plot
Marie and Fraser, two young scholars, respectively French and Scottish, get to know each other while they are both in Moscow to research the life of the Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein. The two researchers reconstruct Sabina's life together, starting with her hospitalisation in Zürich in 1904 for a serious form of hysteria.
There the patient meets the young doctor Carl Gustav Jung, who, using the new methods of psychoanalysis developed by Freud, 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.
Cast
- Emilia Fox: Sabina Spielrein
- Iain Glen: Carl Gustav Jung
- Craig Ferguson: Richard Fraser
- Caroline Ducey: Marie Franquin
- Jane Alexander: Emma Jung
- Joanna David: Sabina's mother
- Viktor Sergachyov: Ivan Ionov
- Giovanni Lombardo Radice: Zorin
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|0349995}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|prendimi_lanima}}
- [https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film705233.html The Soul Keeper] at FilmAffinity
{{Roberto Faenza}}
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Category:2002 biographical drama films
Category:2002 romantic drama films
Category:English-language Italian films
Category:Films directed by Roberto Faenza
Category:Cultural depictions of Carl Jung
Category:Italian biographical drama films
Category:Films set in Switzerland
Category:Films about the Soviet Union in the Stalin era
Category:Films set in the 1900s
Category:Films set in the 1940s
Category:Italian romantic drama films
Category:2000s English-language films