THE SHIPPING NEWS

Genre: Drama
Director: Lasse Hallström
Rated: M
Released: 2001
Country: USA

It was assumed that everything was known about the story of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, the fathers of modern psychiatry. Then in Geneva, in 1977, boxes were discovered in the basement of the Palais Wilson, the former offices of the Swiss Institute of Psychology, which contained the secret correspondence between Jung, Freud and an unknown girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein. In 1905 a young woman (Emilia Fox) is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich where she has arrived from Russia. Suffering from a severe form of hysteria, the girl refuses to eat. A young doctor, Carl Gustav Jung (Iain Glenn), takes her under his care and, for the first time ever, experiments with the psycho-analytical method of his teacher, Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, which soars to the heights but also plunges to the most terrible depths of the last century.