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Bookmark this pageNineteen Nineteen (1984)
Director: Hugh Brody
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From Time Out Film Guide
For Sophie (Schell), the past is literally a foreign country; when she flies from New York to Vienna to see Alexander Scherbatov (Scofield), it is to explore that forgotten territory. For in 1919 they were both patients of Dr Freud. Together they dredge their memories, and map out not only the confessions of the couch, but also the huge historical shifts that separated them; like Freud himself, they were victims of the Nazi arrival. The film operates in much the same way as the talking cure itself; Freud's skilful probings are heard (Finlay's voice) though he is never seen; and the film makes sense of the past by the same shifting, organic, inexplicable process. A sensitive, interior film, with all the restorative power that Freud must have hoped for. CPea.Author: CPea
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- Posted on Aug 31 2008 19:14 This film is so good that Hollywood should hate it. It is among my top 10 movies of all time. I simply cannot get it, that no distributor has yet taken it upon themselves to get it out on the market in DVD format!! Incredibly frustrating. I sqw it twice in the year it came out, and have been looking for it since.
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Cast & crew
Director: Hugh Brody
Producer: Nita Amy
Cast: Paul Scofield, Maria Schell, Frank Finlay, Diana Quick, Clare Higgins, Colin Firth, Sandra Berkin full cast
Duration: 99 mins
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