Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

A rigorous, fragmentary plunge into a disturbed mind's testimony, rewarding but deliberately difficult to sit through.

Directed by

Ernst Schmidt Jr., Susanne Praglowski

Starring

Susanne Widl

Overview

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature. This second part was finished after Ernst Schmidt Jr. death by his assistant Susi Praglowski.

How it feels

Dark, eerie, tense and bleak. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Madness, identity, isolation, power

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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