TV series

Freud
1984 · 1 season
A stately, talk-heavy biographical drama that moves between exile and memory, rewarding patience with a thoughtful portrait of a restless mind.
- Created by
- Carey Harrison
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- David Suchet, David Swift, Helen Bourne
- Tagline
- A portrait of the great psychoanalyst.
- Overview
- Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Each episode begins with Freud and his family in London, where they had fled from Vienna in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss, leading up to Freud's death a little over a year later. The rest of the episodes are told mainly in flashbacks to key moments in Freud's life and career.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, obsession, family, faith
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
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- Created by
- Carey Harrison
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- David Suchet, David Swift, Helen Bourne









