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A Dangerous Method

Year:
Duration:
99 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
David Cronenberg
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 20 wins & 19 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2011-09-30
Filming Locations: Schloss Belvedere - Rennweg 6, Vienna, Austria
Earnings
Opening Weekend: €438,556 (Italy) (2 October 2011)
Gross: $5,702,083 (USA) (29 April 2012)
Cast
Actor
Character
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
A Dangerous Method
Keira Knightley
Sabina Spielrein
Michael Fassbender
Carl Jung
Vincent Cassel
Otto Gross
Sarah Gadon
Emma Jung
André Hennicke
Professor Eugen Bleuler (as André M. Hennicke)
Mignon Remé
Jung's Secretary
Mareike Carrière
Food Nurse
Franziska Arndt
Bath Nurse
Wladimir Matuchin
Nikolai Spielrein
André Dietz
Medical Policeman
Anna Thalbach
Bathtub Patient
Sarah Marecek
Orchard Nurse
Bjorn Geske
Orderly (as Björn Geske)
Markus Haase
Orderly
Christian Serritiello
Ship's Officer
Clemens Giebel
Ship's Steward
Theo Meller
Karl Abraham
Jost Grix
Leonhard Seif
Severin von Hoensbroech
Johan van Ophuijsen
Torsten Knippertz
Ernest Jones
Dirk S. Greis
Franz Riklin
Katharina Palm
Martha Freud
Nina Azizi
Minna Bernays
Julie Chevallier
Anna Freud
Cynthia Cosima
Sophie Freud
Mirko Naeger-Guckeisen
Ernst Freud
Andy Magro
Jean Freud (as Andrea Magro)
Aaron Keller
Oliver Freud
Nadine Salomon
Maid at Freud's House
Naike Jaszczyk
Agathe Jung
Sarah Adams
Gret Jung
Christian Natter
Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
Lucrezia Phantazia
Mental Patient (uncredited)
Dennis Vehlen
Traveller with Book (uncredited)
Ingeborg Vehlen
Rich Traveller (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
David Cronenberg's third film with Viggo Mortensen.
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The final scene, where Jung stares, conflicted in his chair next to the lake, is in many ways identical to the final scene in The Godfather: Part II (1974).
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According to Keira Knightley, at first she didn't know how to play her character's hysteria. When she read some of Spielrein's notes she noticed the woman described her condition as being like "a demon or a dog". Knightley then started to pull faces and contacted David Cronenberg through Skype to show him the results until they both agreed on one.
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Goofs
The sailboat that Jung's wife gives him is clearly very modern with Dacron sails, nylon rigging and stainless steel cleats, none of which existed at the time.
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Sabina Spielrein's closing history is incorrect. Her death, along with her 2 daughters, actually occurred in August 1942, not 1941. Their deaths were only 3 among 27,000 in the massacre that occurred in Zmievskaya Balka, Rostov-on-Don, Russia by German forces.
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When Jung and Freud sail to America, the Statue of Liberty they pass by has a golden torch. But the statue's original torch, in place till 1984, had portholes in it which were illuminated from within. Not until 1986 was the current gold-leaf covered torch installed.
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Quotes
Carl Jung: [to Sabina] My love for you was the most important thing in my life. For better or worse, it made me understand who I am.
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Sabina Spielrein: I somehow imagined you'd have found another admirer by now.
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Sabina Spielrein: I'm saying perhaps true sexuality demands the destruction of the ego.
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Faq
Q
What ended up happening to Sigmund Freud?
A
Freud detected a growth in his mouth in 1923 and was advised to stop smoking cigars. He did not and developed a cancer for which he underwent unsuccessful surgery. In 1938 there were outbursts of violent anti-Semitism following the Anschluss of 13 March 1938 in which Germany annexed Austria. Freud and his family began their escape from the Nazis in April and May of 1938 and settled in London. The cancer spread and was painful; Freud's doctor and fellow refugee, Max Schur administered morphine that resulted in Freud's death on 23 September 1939.
Q
What ended up happening to Carl Jung?
A
Carl Gustav Jung suffered a prolonged nervous breakdown during the First World War, from which he emerged to become, eventually, the world's leading psychologist. He outlived his wife, Emma, and his mistress, Toni Wolff, and died peacefully in 1961. (according to information provided at the end of the movie right before the credits)
Q
What ended up happening to Sabina Spielrein?
A
Sabina Spielrein returned to Russia, trained a number of the most distinguished analysts of the new Soviet Union and finally returned to practice medicine in her native town, Rostov-on-Don. In 1941, by then a widow, she and her two daughters were taken by Nazi occupying forces to a local synagogue and shot. (according to information provided at the end of the movie right before the credits)
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