Freud's Last Session
September 3, 1939. The world is on the brink. A monumental session with two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century over the future of mankind and the existence of God.
Freud's Last Session (2023)
Timing:
1:49 (109 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama
Budget
$10 000 000
Revenue
$1 697 993
Director
Matt Brown
Actors
Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Stephen Campbell Moore, Orla Brady, David Shields, Tarek Bishara, George Andrew-Clarke
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Mark St. Germain
Producer
Alan Greisman, Hannah Leader, Robert Stillman, Rick Nicita, Tristan Lynch, Aoife O'Sullivan, Matt Brown, Meg Thomson, Andrea Bucko, Chris K. Daniels
Operator
Ben Smithard
Composer
Artist
Audition
Reg Poerscout-Edgerton, Lillie Jeffrey
Editing
Paul Tothill
All team (23)
All team (23)
Short description
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
What's left behind the scenes
- 30 years before this project, Anthony Hopkins played C.S. Lewis in Richard Attenborough's biographical drama “Shadowlands” (1993).
- The screenplay is based on a play by Mark St. Germain, which in turn is based on a 2002 book by Armand Nicoli. A documentary film based on the same book was broadcast by the American non-profit broadcasting service “PBS”. The book and documentary compare the life and ideas of Lewis and Freud. Unlike the play and this film, they do not mention a meeting between Lewis and Freud, which never actually happened. The play limits itself to simply their conversation, while the film shows episodes from their personal lives.
- The entire storyline of the lesbian relationship of Freud's daughter Anna, played by Liv Lisa Fries, was cut from the film's release in Russian theaters.
- At the end of the film, a waltz composed by Anthony Hopkins – And the Waltz Goes On – is played by the Strauss Orchestra conducted by conductor and violinist André Rieu. Hopkins wrote this melody back in 1964 but never showed it to anyone. 47 years later, he sent the sheet music to André Rieu. The rest of the world heard the waltz in 2011.
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