A Dangerous Method
Why deny what you desire the most.
Country
Production
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$27 462 041
Director
Actors
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel, André Hennicke, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Mignon Remé, Mareike Carrière, Franziska Arndt
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jeremy Thomas, Stephan Mallmann, Peter Watson, Karl Spoerri, Thomas Sterchi, Matthias Zimmermann
Camera operator
Peter Suschitzky
Composer
Artist
James McAteer
Audition
Editing
Ronald Sanders
Whole Team (70)
Whole Team (70)
Short description
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Christopher Hampton's play 'The Talking Cure' (2002), which was in turn based on John Kerr's book 'A Most Dangerous Method: The story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein' (1993).
- Christoph Waltz was originally chosen for the role of Sigmund Freud, but he had to decline due to filming 'Water for Elephants' (2011).
- In preparation for the role, Viggo Mortensen read all the literature about Sigmund Freud and visited his house-museum in Vienna.
- David Cronenberg taught Mortensen a "Jewish walk".
- Christian Bale could have played Sigmund Freud.
- Filming took place in Constance, Lucerne, Zurich, Überlingen and in the Belvedere Palace park in Vienna.
- The character played by Keira Knightley, while in bed, mentions a poem by Lermontov, but in reality, it is a poem by A.S. Pushkin, "The Prisoner," from 1822.
- Sabina Spielrein and her daughters were shot (executed) by the Nazis in 1942, not in 1941 as stated at the end of the film.
- The film is based on Christopher Hampton's play "The Talking Cure" (2002), which was in turn adapted from John Kerr's book "A Most Dangerous Method: The story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein" (1993).
- Christoph Waltz was initially chosen for the role of Sigmund Freud, but he had to decline due to filming commitments for "Water for Elephants" (2011).
- David Cronenberg taught Mortensen a "Jewish gait."
- The character played by Keira Knightley, while lying in bed, references a poem by Lermontov, but in reality, it is a poem by A.S. Pushkin, “The Prisoner,” written in 1822.
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