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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

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St. Louis Jewish Light

Bruno Ganz (left) as Sigmund Freud and Simon Morze as Franz in The Tobacconist. (Photo: Petro Domenigg) 

Bruno Ganz as Freud propels WWII-era coming of age film

BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished July 9, 2020

The late, great Swiss actor Bruno Ganz plays Sigmund Freud in “The Tobacconist,” an imaginative, engrossing tale about a friendship between a teenage boy and Freud set in Vienna just before and during the Nazi invasion. This was one of the Ganz’s...

From left, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley
as Sabina Spielrein.

Strong film explores epic psychoanalytic triangle

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 18, 2012

Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley deliver powerful performances as psychoanalysis founders Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and lesser-known psychotherapist, Sabina Spielrein, in director David Cronenberg's intriguing, suspenseful and...

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