![]() If up to here Glen’s psychologically fragile doctor shares center stage with Fox’s tormented but deeply alive patient, pic finishes with a poignant section that is all Sabina’s, following her to Lenin’s new Soviet Union where she finally meets her fate along with other Jewish victims.Ĭounterpointing all this is a modern-day frame story set in Moscow, in which Prof. Freud (who never appears on screen, but hovers potently in the characters’ minds) backs his pupil, and Sabina is left alone with her aching love. His soft-spoken wife (Jane Alexander), who sees all, plays it cool but sends an anonymous letter to Sabina’s family back in Russia that creates a scandal. Instead of resisting her seductive behavior, Jung commits the professional sin of taking her to bed in a moment of sensuous abandon. Still attending twice-weekly sessions with the good doctor, Sabina finds herself deeply in love. Fox and Glen gamely slog through some clunky English dialog and free-association sessions in the film’s slowest and most predictable reels, until the new Freudian method triumphs over the scoffers and she is “cured.” Instead of the usual chains and electroshock therapy, he patiently talks the young woman through her delusions. She is deep into a violent, suicidal depression when Jung proposes they try something new. In 1904 Zurich, 19-year-old Sabina (Emilia Fox) is brought to Jung (Iain Glen) by her well-to-do Jewish family. ![]() Convincing Anglo cast dramatizes much of the material previously seen in Elisabeth Marton’s 2002 feature docu, “My Name Was Sabina Spielrein.” Addition here is Faenza’s original research into the heroine’s post-Jung life. ![]()
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