Story Line
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.
“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.”
Top Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Sigmund Freud
Matthew Goode
C. S. Lewis
Liv Lisa Fries
Anna Freud
Jodi Balfour
Dorothy Burlingham
Jeremy Northam
Ernest Jones
Stephen Campbell Moore
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Rating
6.6/ 10
Release Date
2023-12-22
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Drama
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User Reviews (3)
Horseface
2/10
•3/29/2024I lasted forty-five minutes with this one.
The premise was intriguing, and the semi-low score could easily be attributed to people finding a slow-pace talkie boring, or people on either side of the theist/atheist aisle being offended.
As an ath...
Brent Marchant
8/10
•4/29/2024Near the end of his life in 1939, Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins) held one last session at his London home after fleeing the encroaching Nazi oppression in his native Vienna. At that time, just as the German blitzkrieg against Poland was beginning, F...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•6/18/2024Though there is no evidence that this meeting ever actually happened, it does make for quite an intriguing premise. Renowned, but ailing, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony Hopkins) invites Oxford University professor C.S. "Jack" Lewis (Matthew...