The Soul Keeper (2002) | Biography, Drama, Romance
The Soul Keeper is a 2002 Italian-French-British romance-drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. The movie is loosely based on the real-life events of Russian psychoanalyst and physician Sabina Spielrein and her therapeutic and sentimental relationship with Carl Gustav Jung, a prominent Swiss psychiatrist.
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00:00:00you
00:00:30you
00:00:32you
00:00:52Richard I haven't run away but I wanted to be alone for my last meeting with
00:00:59Sabina there's something I haven't told you my real name is Marie Franken
00:01:07Spielrein I was born in France but my family originally came from Russia my
00:01:14great-grandparents managed to get out when Stalin came to power for years I've
00:01:21been longing to come to Russia to learn all I could about Sabina Spielrein
00:01:28you'll undoubtedly wonder when you hear this message if we are related since we
00:01:34have the same family name maybe we are but that's hardly important I feel by
00:01:42now Sabina and I are closely related in our souls
00:01:51we really don't know what to do professor she's been like this for a
00:02:14year now ever since her little sister Irina died from pneumonia she's getting
00:02:19worse every day we've come all the way from Russia we thought if we brought her
00:02:26here to you then maybe you could help us do it again I won't I promise I won't
00:02:34do it again please believe me but don't keep me here please don't keep me here
00:02:42no no no no no no no no no no no no you filthy old pig!
00:02:52tell the old slut to get her hands off me you bastards!
00:02:59I'm sorry, I'm sorry
00:03:11Guardian Angel, my mother and father have gone back to Russia and left me here.
00:03:18I'm frightened. I don't want to be alone.
00:03:22I shall stop eating.
00:03:24That way, when they come back, all they'll find will be my clothes and my shoes.
00:03:30I'm sorry I shan't be here to see their faces.
00:03:34To my mother, I leave the notes of Tumbalalaika, my favorite song.
00:03:39To my father, I leave nothing.
00:03:44What can grow without rain?
00:03:46What can burn for years without end?
00:03:51A stone can grow without rain, but only love can burn for years without end.
00:03:58So much has been written and recorded about Sabina's treatment in Zurich.
00:04:03But no one's ever bothered to find out what happened to her after she returned to Russia.
00:04:10That's why I wanted to come to Moscow.
00:04:13To discover some facts about the white nursery, the infant school where she was last seen.
00:04:20I've often wondered what fascinated you about Sabina.
00:04:24Certainly, I never imagined that we'd meet as a result of a theft.
00:04:31There are rabbits. No, hares in my room.
00:04:34They're all black and they've got long ears like sheep.
00:04:38I get into bed and they're already there waiting for me.
00:04:41A strange creature.
00:04:43I don't know what it is.
00:04:46I get into bed and they're already there waiting for me.
00:04:49As soon as they see me, they start laughing.
00:04:52I yell at them. I'm tired. Leave me alone.
00:04:55I don't want to play anymore.
00:05:16Good morning, Miss Fiorina.
00:05:19I'm Dr. Jung.
00:05:21Professor Bleuler has put me in charge of your case.
00:05:30Now, gently.
00:05:35Help me!
00:05:45Leave us.
00:05:59Why do you want to die?
00:06:02Because I'm wicked.
00:06:05That's hardly reason enough.
00:06:08Anyway, I'm here to stop you.
00:06:12So which of us do you think is going to win, Miss Beright?
00:06:18I'd like to try a new treatment with you.
00:06:21Nothing forced, no cold showers, no shackling you to the bed.
00:06:26It consists essentially in letting you talk.
00:06:29Whatever comes into your head, you talk and I listen.
00:06:36Shall I tell you what they do on Mars?
00:06:40Please. What do they do on Mars?
00:06:43They don't have babies.
00:06:46Why not?
00:06:48Because no-one makes love on Mars.
00:06:51How do you know that?
00:06:54I've been there.
00:06:57Wish I had been to Mars.
00:07:10No-one ever takes any notice when I say things like that.
00:07:20Do you like children, Miss Beright?
00:07:25Tell me.
00:07:27Don't be afraid.
00:07:34You can't kill me, Doctor.
00:07:37Why not?
00:07:39Because you are well and I am not.
00:07:43So?
00:07:45So you can't understand me.
00:08:01Do all Russian girls read French newspapers?
00:08:04Excuse-moi, je n'ai pas le temps.
00:08:06Sorry, what?
00:08:08Leave me alone.
00:08:10I don't care if you're Russian or you're French.
00:08:13What you are is a thief.
00:08:21Does the name Sabina Spielrein mean anything to you?
00:08:24Give it back.
00:08:27My name's Richard Fraser.
00:08:29I teach history at Glasgow University.
00:08:31I think your acquisition might be quite useful to me.
00:08:34Can I at least have a look at it?
00:08:36And if not, you report me?
00:08:38Well, it is an idea.
00:08:40Why don't we go and have a drink somewhere and talk about that?
00:08:43Do I have a choice?
00:08:45Yes. Tea or coffee.
00:08:50Look, I'm sorry if I came over late.
00:08:54Look, I'm sorry if I came on a bit strong, but I'm a historian.
00:08:57Any time a document is removed from the official archives,
00:09:00it's lost forever.
00:09:02Monsieur historian, here in Russia,
00:09:04any time a document is consigned to the official archives,
00:09:07it is lost forever.
00:09:11Look, I'm doing research into the former Soviet Union.
00:09:15I think the addition of psychoanalysis could be very interesting.
00:09:19I have an idea.
00:09:21You speak Russian and English, and you obviously know your way around.
00:09:25I need an interpreter.
00:09:27You want a thief to work for you?
00:09:29Well, beggars can't be choosers.
00:09:31Anyway, you could go on with your own research at the same time.
00:09:34We could pool our resources.
00:09:36It's a nice idea.
00:09:38But my research grant was not exactly generous, and I've used it up.
00:09:42I go back to Paris on Saturday.
00:09:44Right. I'm not suggesting you work for free. I'll pay you.
00:09:47How much?
00:09:49Board and lodging, and $600 a week.
00:10:08You sing beautifully.
00:10:10I like sculpting myself, you know.
00:10:13But I prefer stone to clay.
00:10:16You're very talented.
00:10:18Where did you learn?
00:10:24My uncle taught me.
00:10:26In Russia.
00:10:28Is he a sculptor?
00:10:30No.
00:10:32He's an alchemist.
00:10:34He taught me how to make paper out of rags.
00:10:36Did he just?
00:10:38You know, I'm rather keen on doing experiments
00:10:41that are somewhat unorthodox.
00:10:45What kind of experiments?
00:10:47I tend to sense things before they happen.
00:10:49Psychic intuition, if you like.
00:10:55I've lost my legs.
00:11:02Do you often fall like that?
00:11:04Who's that woman spying on us?
00:11:07What?
00:11:09There's a woman at that window. She's staring at me.
00:11:12That's my apartment. I don't see anyone there.
00:11:16So it must be all right.
00:11:19Have you ever fallen like that before?
00:11:23It happened once.
00:11:26When?
00:11:28My cat had some kittens.
00:11:30I said I wanted to be like her.
00:11:33My father lost his temper.
00:11:36My father lost his temper.
00:11:39But my mother said there was nothing wrong with me wanting to have children.
00:11:43After all, I was a woman, wasn't I?
00:11:54Don't be frightened.
00:11:56I just wanted to show you how I would have nursed my kittens.
00:12:07Guardian Angel.
00:12:10My doctor is fair-haired and handsome.
00:12:14Even more so when he smokes his pipe.
00:12:20Tomorrow I shall ask him if he is married.
00:12:36No.
00:13:01I saw you in the garden this morning with your new patient.
00:13:04What's wrong with her?
00:13:06Clinical diagnosis is hysteria, but there's more to it.
00:13:12Why don't you speak to Freud?
00:13:14This is the first time you've used his method, isn't it?
00:13:17Yes. Yes, I'll write to him.
00:13:20Sometimes I feel you allow your patients to affect you rather too deeply.
00:13:24It's the only way I know how to heal.
00:13:30Perhaps she doesn't want to grow up.
00:13:33Wants to be a child again.
00:13:36I suspect there's some unresolved Oedipal complex.
00:13:41Makes her feel so guilty she actually wants to be punished.
00:13:44The two of you should get along well together then.
00:13:48I was thinking of you and Freud.
00:13:50I mean, he's virtually appointed you his son-in-law,
00:13:53and you look upon him as father.
00:13:56I wonder if you'll end up trying to kill each other.
00:14:04Good afternoon.
00:14:05Good afternoon.
00:14:06Professor Fraser has booked a room for me.
00:14:08Marie-Francois.
00:14:09Marie-Francois.
00:14:12Room 121.
00:14:34I'm sorry.
00:14:37What's going on?
00:14:39Did you ask for communicating rooms?
00:14:41Of course not.
00:14:43OK. Well, we can get you another one.
00:14:46If you want.
00:14:48I mean, I'm not dangerous.
00:14:50Anyway, we can always keep it locked.
00:14:52Listen, while you're here,
00:14:54could you translate page 138 and 139?
00:14:58Yes, of course.
00:15:00OK, thanks. And can you not smoke here?
00:15:02Because the smell will come through.
00:15:04Oh, yes, I'm sorry.
00:15:06OK, thanks. See you later.
00:15:07See you.
00:15:09Chair.
00:15:11Chair.
00:15:12Don't think. Just respond.
00:15:15Chair.
00:15:16Table.
00:15:17Soft.
00:15:18Warm.
00:15:20Lake.
00:15:22Water.
00:15:23Snow.
00:15:26Purity.
00:15:27Dog.
00:15:28Cat.
00:15:30You know, you look like a wild cat sometimes, Dr Jung.
00:15:34Russia.
00:15:35Home.
00:15:37Didn't know this could be so much fun.
00:15:40Just one word, please.
00:15:43French.
00:15:44Wife.
00:15:46Wouldn't it be funny if your wife ran off with a Frenchman?
00:15:54One word.
00:15:57Sabina.
00:16:01Dies.
00:16:05Father.
00:16:10Punishment.
00:16:13Sister.
00:16:18Cemetery.
00:16:23Must be so cold in there.
00:16:31My father used to beat us when we were naughty.
00:16:36Go on.
00:16:38Father.
00:16:42Mum must be all right.
00:16:45Make the effort.
00:16:47Father.
00:16:48Why did I tell you anything about myself?
00:16:51You never tell me anything about yourself!
00:17:01Well?
00:17:05Do you think it's right to bring the dead back to life?
00:17:11Look me in the eye, Dr Jung!
00:17:31What's wrong?
00:17:33I have to go.
00:17:35Why?
00:17:36The Russian girl.
00:17:38I dreamt she ran away.
00:17:40Darling, come back to bed. It's only a dream.
00:17:53There she is, sleeping peacefully.
00:18:00I'm going to bed.
00:18:30Good girl.
00:19:01Here.
00:19:03The translation you wanted.
00:19:05Oh, thanks.
00:19:07Why are you so interested in the Sabina Spielreihe?
00:19:14In German, Spielreihe means game.
00:19:17It's a game.
00:19:19It's a game.
00:19:21It's a game.
00:19:23It's a game.
00:19:25It's a game.
00:19:27It's a game.
00:19:28In German, Spielreihe means fair play.
00:19:32So?
00:19:34History has forgotten her.
00:19:36And that's not fair.
00:19:38Yes, but why is it so important to you?
00:19:44I suppose, in a way,
00:19:47that's what I'd like to be.
00:19:50A woman who plays fair.
00:19:59We can't go on feeding you this way.
00:20:03Your veins can't stand it.
00:20:11It's gone on long enough.
00:20:14Do you want them to sack me?
00:20:17Because that's what will happen.
00:20:21I'm not going to let you do that.
00:20:24I'm not going to let you do that.
00:20:27Why should they blame you?
00:20:30They see your death as proof of my failure.
00:20:33The failure of my method.
00:20:37I don't want you to suffer because of me.
00:20:44Well, then.
00:20:47I think we should go somewhere a little more cheerful for our session today.
00:20:52So why don't you get dressed?
00:20:54And come with me?
00:21:05Two hot chocolates and some cake and pastries, please.
00:21:07Yes.
00:21:25The other day you complained that I never told you anything about myself.
00:21:30Apart from my wife.
00:21:32No one has ever seen this.
00:21:40I keep a diary too.
00:21:42I take it everywhere with me.
00:21:48The first girl I was ever attracted to was young.
00:21:51Jewish.
00:21:52She had a long dark braid that hung down over her shoulder.
00:21:55I'm Jewish too, you know.
00:21:57I know.
00:21:58No, I feel it's fate that my first patient should be.
00:22:00Do you believe in premonitions, Doctor?
00:22:02Oh, I don't believe. I know.
00:22:05I wrote my doctoral thesis on so-called occult phenomena.
00:22:09Do you remember the other day, when we were in the garden, I was telling you...
00:22:12Did I tell you my grandfather was a rabbi?
00:22:14He was an expert on the Kabbalah.
00:22:16He foretold the exact hour and day of his death.
00:22:19He foretold the exact hour and day of his death.
00:22:22Well, my grandfather had a special armchair set aside for his dead wife.
00:22:28And every day he spent at least an hour talking to her spirit.
00:22:33Really?
00:22:49Do you really care about me, Doctor?
00:23:16If I didn't, I couldn't treat you.
00:23:19No, I mean...
00:23:21Do you care about me from head to toe?
00:23:24From head to toe.
00:23:26Do you love me, Doctor?
00:23:30All clinical cases, in one way or another, involve an element of love.
00:23:34Can I tell you one of my secrets, then?
00:23:40Sometimes, when I'm alone...
00:23:44I touch myself.
00:23:47I'm terribly ashamed.
00:23:49There's really no reason to be. Many people do.
00:23:53You, too.
00:23:56Certainly.
00:23:58Me, too. Sometimes.
00:24:13Mmm.
00:24:29Tiring day?
00:24:31No more than usual.
00:24:34Were you at the hospital all afternoon?
00:24:36No. No, I had to go and see a colleague about a case.
00:24:39He wants my advice on a patient of his.
00:24:42Oh.
00:24:46What about your Russian girl?
00:24:48How's the treatment going?
00:24:51Much better.
00:24:53She's finally started to eat.
00:25:06It just occurred to me that we never buy any cakes.
00:25:11And with all the cake shops there are in Zurich.
00:25:15And anyway...
00:25:18I'm pregnant.
00:25:20And we never indulge.
00:25:31Sabina!
00:25:33Sabina!
00:25:39Go away. I don't want to see anyone.
00:25:43Open it, Sabina!
00:25:47Sabina, open the door!
00:25:50What's going on?
00:25:51She's blocked the door with something.
00:25:53Open it!
00:26:00Take her to the second floor.
00:26:03Too much for the young method.
00:26:33No! No! No!
00:26:43What in God's name were you thinking of?
00:26:45You've destroyed months of hard work.
00:26:47She tried to kill herself.
00:26:49Professor...
00:26:50I said release her!
00:26:54Stupidity!
00:26:57I'll leave for a few weeks and we'll return to the Dark Ages.
00:27:04Leave us.
00:27:08Go away, traitor.
00:27:10Sabina, listen to me.
00:27:12I'm not responsible for what happened here.
00:27:14I did not abandon you!
00:27:16I was called up!
00:27:18In Switzerland we have to do military service once a year.
00:27:22Why did you try to kill yourself?
00:27:28No one here loves me.
00:27:30No one here loves me.
00:27:35From now on, I and I alone will look after you.
00:27:41Swear to me.
00:27:43I swear.
00:27:46Then let go of me.
00:28:01My will.
00:28:09When I'm dead, I want Dr. Jung to have my head.
00:28:13Only he is to open and dissect it.
00:28:17I want my body to be cremated
00:28:19and the ashes to be scattered beneath an oak tree on which is written,
00:28:24I too was a human being.
00:28:27I too was a human being.
00:28:52What's that?
00:28:54My soul.
00:28:58Your soul?
00:29:01I've had it since I was a child.
00:29:04Primitive man used to think that stones had souls too.
00:29:10I want you to be the keeper
00:29:13of my soul.
00:29:17The keeper of your soul.
00:29:27The keeper of your soul.
00:29:37Silence! Silence!
00:29:49You see what your passion is up to, Dr. Jung?
00:29:53Tell her to stop!
00:29:58Silence! Silence!
00:30:03Silence! Silence!
00:30:07Silence! Silence!
00:30:11Miss Spielreiter, please.
00:30:16With pleasure, Dr. Jung.
00:30:57Silence! Silence!
00:31:28Oh!
00:31:39I'm going to be discharged today
00:31:41after being in hospital for almost a year.
00:31:45I've started eating regularly and even having periods again.
00:31:50Dr. Jung said it would be enough if I see him twice a week from now on.
00:31:55Though I'd like to see him more often.
00:32:14Would you like to tell me one of your dreams?
00:32:18We're going to get bored always talking about mine.
00:32:21Why don't you tell me one of yours?
00:32:23I'm not sure I should, as your doctor.
00:32:27But as it's you, I'll make an exception.
00:32:31I'll tell you a dream I had last night.
00:32:34There was this great big horse.
00:32:36A stallion. It was kicking and bucking.
00:32:40Some men were trying to get him under control, but he was having none of it.
00:32:45And a little foal trotted by all peacefully.
00:32:50He suddenly calmed down.
00:32:54Stallion.
00:32:56Trainer.
00:32:57Disciplined.
00:32:58Disciple.
00:32:59Master.
00:33:00Freud.
00:33:02Freud frightens you and you feel you have to behave like a good little foal when he's around.
00:33:09Maybe.
00:33:10It could be that your dream was a symptom of your dissatisfaction.
00:33:14You see?
00:33:16Our roles have become reversed.
00:33:19What kind of dissatisfaction did you have in mind?
00:33:21Your sexual dissatisfaction.
00:33:27Have I made a cross, Dr. Jung?
00:33:33You see love everywhere, don't you?
00:33:35It's the force that drives the world.
00:33:38You said yourself there could be no cure without love.
00:33:41Remember?
00:33:46Time's up.
00:33:48Time's up.
00:34:05Forgive me, forgive me.
00:34:07For what?
00:34:12At times I can't quite control myself.
00:34:18Oh.
00:34:24I'm glad it happens to doctors too.
00:35:18Why do you think Judith killed Holofernes?
00:35:23Surprised to see me here?
00:35:28Because God ordered her to.
00:35:30To save her people.
00:35:32First she seduces him, then she cuts off his head.
00:35:36Look at her expression.
00:35:38Does she really look like someone who's carrying out God's orders?
00:35:42I don't know.
00:35:44Does she really look like someone who's carrying out God's orders?
00:35:49What are you suggesting, Miss Bealright?
00:35:53Look carefully, Dr. Jung.
00:35:55Her eyes.
00:35:57The sensuality of her mouth.
00:36:01Her exposed breasts.
00:36:04Her bejeweled hand, which holds his head.
00:36:09No.
00:36:11Judith did not kill Holofernes to obey God.
00:36:15Why then?
00:36:19She killed him because she loved him.
00:36:23You know, sometimes you say things that really rather shock me.
00:36:28Do I?
00:36:30As an explorer of the unconscious, I shouldn't think anything could shock you, Doctor.
00:36:41I love you.
00:36:53What's it going to be?
00:36:55A trickster. A mythological figure.
00:36:58Bringer of light and chaos.
00:37:00What happened to that Russian girl you were so interested in?
00:37:03She was discharged.
00:37:05The treatment was a great success.
00:37:07A lawyer asked me to write a paper on the case for the international conference.
00:37:12Have you seen her since?
00:37:14No.
00:37:16Aye.
00:37:18Doctor-patient bonds are difficult to break sometimes, aren't they?
00:37:28What on earth have you done to your hair?
00:37:33It's nice, isn't it?
00:37:37Yes.
00:37:53Doctor Jung.
00:37:56I hear you've enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine.
00:38:00Congratulations.
00:38:02Well, it's all thanks to you.
00:38:03You suggested I should study psychiatry, so I took you at your word.
00:38:10Please, come in.
00:38:18Oh, this is for you.
00:38:20I thought you might be interested.
00:38:22It's my study of a young woman's dreams.
00:38:24I'm sorry it's such a mess. The place is so...
00:38:27No, it's lovely.
00:38:29Please, sit down.
00:38:31You see, I keep your soul with me always.
00:38:38Am I the young woman with the dreams?
00:38:41No. No, it isn't a patient of mine.
00:38:44Can I offer you something?
00:38:46No, thank you. I just came round to say hello and...
00:38:49Well, you can't leave yet. You've only just arrived.
00:38:54Would you like to know what I dreamt last night?
00:38:57Please, tell me.
00:38:58I think...
00:39:00I prefer to show you.
00:39:03Show me.
00:39:06A dream.
00:39:14You know, you...
00:39:18You seem so...
00:39:20Different.
00:39:21Transformed.
00:39:24Butterfly.
00:39:28Beautiful.
00:39:31Nature.
00:39:34Nurture.
00:39:36Kitten.
00:39:38Kiss.
00:39:51I love you.
00:40:21I love you.
00:40:52Oh.
00:41:00My dream, it wasn't as beautiful as this.
00:41:04You made me feel things.
00:41:07Things I've never felt before.
00:41:14You have to leave.
00:41:19I know.
00:41:22I know.
00:41:25We have yet to spend a whole night together.
00:41:44How does one get to be so brave?
00:41:47Your love has to be stronger than your fear.
00:41:49Bravo, Professor.
00:41:52Yes.
00:42:01This is the White House. This is the Russian government building.
00:42:04This is not the White Nursery.
00:42:07Excuse me.
00:42:08Yes, I'm listening.
00:42:10This is the White House, not the White House.
00:42:13Ah, the White House.
00:42:15Yes.
00:42:16I've never heard of it.
00:42:18He's never heard of it.
00:42:20Come on. Sabina Spielrein's White Nursery.
00:42:23The International Solidarity School.
00:42:26It was the first infant school in the world to use psychoanalysis.
00:42:28You must have a record of it.
00:42:30You must go, Akai.
00:42:32I'm not British Museum.
00:42:37Now what?
00:42:39I have an idea.
00:42:43So, what's your idea?
00:42:45If you can't find things through official channels, you do it yourself.
00:42:51Dr. Jung, there's a Russian gentleman asking for you.
00:42:55Did he give a name?
00:42:56No. He just said it's urgent.
00:42:58Send him in.
00:42:59Please.
00:43:07I don't think I've had the pleasure.
00:43:09Are you sure, Dr. Jung?
00:43:23I didn't want anyone to recognise me.
00:43:36Maybe you don't like me dressed like this.
00:44:34Afternoon.
00:44:35Dr. Jung and Miss Spielrein.
00:44:38We booked two single rooms.
00:44:40No, a double room.
00:44:41Don't you remember?
00:44:43A double room with a double bed.
00:44:47Of course.
00:44:49A nice big double bed, please.
00:44:52Yes, madam.
00:46:02You're so cold.
00:46:05What's the matter?
00:46:10I'm just so happy.
00:46:13Then why are you crying?
00:46:19Damned happiness.
00:46:23It's what my mother used to say when we were small.
00:46:28She meant to say, blessed.
00:46:32I think she was right.
00:46:35Damned happiness.
00:47:05Come on.
00:47:15I want to have your baby.
00:47:19Here, now.
00:47:20I want to conceive a child.
00:47:23What are you saying?
00:47:26You're mad?
00:47:29Of course I am.
00:47:31It was you who first diagnosed it.
00:47:33And then you cured me.
00:47:35So now I'm not mad anymore?
00:47:56My dear Professor Freud.
00:47:59A former patient of mine.
00:48:00Who I have always treated with the greatest respect.
00:48:03Is now threatening to destroy my entire life.
00:48:08Solely because I denied myself the pleasure of giving her a child.
00:48:13She has fallen in love with me.
00:48:16I've become her father.
00:48:18Her lover.
00:48:19Her husband.
00:48:22What can I do?
00:48:25Asking her to control herself is hopeless.
00:48:30I know.
00:48:41I know you'll say it's my fault, Professor.
00:48:44But logic and reason have never had much effect on passion, have they?
00:48:47I am guilty, yes.
00:48:49Guilty of having fallen victim to my own desires.
00:48:52But as you yourself said.
00:48:54Love is as close as you can get to psychosis.
00:48:58Love is madness.
00:49:00Love is madness.
00:49:17So, someone sent an anonymous letter to Sabina's parents.
00:49:22Telling them about her affair with Jung.
00:49:25Yes.
00:49:26So, who was it?
00:49:29Emma?
00:49:30It had to be.
00:49:31She wanted to save her marriage.
00:49:33How did they react?
00:49:35Papa Spielrein wrote Jung a letter saying,
00:49:38my daughter made a god out of you and you have behaved like a wretched mortal.
00:49:43What did Jung do?
00:49:45He wrote him a nasty letter saying, in essence,
00:49:48since he had treated Sabina for nothing, he had no right to complain.
00:49:53Nice.
00:49:55Okay.
00:49:57What did Sabina do?
00:49:59She wrote to Freud, asking for advice.
00:50:02What did he say?
00:50:04He told her to break off their relationship immediately.
00:50:07Freud didn't care about Sabina.
00:50:10Jung had behaved very badly.
00:50:12But at that time he was still Freud's pupil, so...
00:50:15Well, he was also a man.
00:50:22Come in.
00:50:23Why are you standing there like that?
00:50:34I came here to tell you.
00:50:37We have to end our relationship.
00:50:40Sabina, be reasonable.
00:50:43My wife...
00:50:44Emma doesn't want to lose you.
00:50:45For the good of all of us, I beg you,
00:50:48please try to repress your emotions.
00:50:53Please try to understand.
00:50:55We can't have a scandal.
00:50:56It's you who should try to understand.
00:50:59You're rejecting the best part of yourself.
00:51:04I'm almost the most beautiful thing in the world.
00:51:07You love me because I saved you.
00:51:10Now I need you to help me.
00:51:11Help you?
00:51:13This passion.
00:51:15It will destroy me.
00:51:17It will destroy both of us.
00:51:19Isn't that glorious?
00:51:20No! No!
00:51:21No, it's not.
00:51:23You said listen to me.
00:51:24I am listening.
00:51:25No, we can still see each other.
00:51:27Maybe you can come to my house and become friends with Emma.
00:51:31What?
00:51:34That's despicable.
00:51:38Sometimes one must be in order to survive.
00:51:43Before I met you, I had my work, my family.
00:51:46They don't frighten me.
00:51:49Now I'm ill, Sabina.
00:51:52Give me some of the love, the patience that I gave to you.
00:51:57Don't punish me with your love.
00:52:04You can't leave me!
00:52:06You can't leave me!
00:52:21You can't leave me!
00:52:36What are we waiting for?
00:52:38Something that should interest you.
00:52:41God, I hope they come.
00:52:43Who?
00:52:47You wait here. I'll be right back.
00:52:52So that's what historians do. They run after receptionists.
00:52:56Yes.
00:53:19What is it?
00:53:21It's the names of all the children who were in the White Nursery,
00:53:24listed by the OGPU and inherited by the KGB.
00:53:28It's a present for you.
00:53:36Thank you very much.
00:53:40Come on.
00:53:42The girl from the hotel, her father was a KGB officer.
00:53:45They're always a good source of information, especially if you're willing to pay.
00:53:51Would you please tell Mrs Young that Miss Bealryne is here to see her?
00:54:21Thanks.
00:54:30Repress my feelings and become friendly with his wife.
00:54:36Repress my feelings and become friendly with his wife.
00:54:52Who?
00:55:18What do you want?
00:55:21I want him to love me still.
00:55:51I want him to love me still.
00:56:21I want him to love me still.
00:56:51I want him to love me still.
00:57:22Good afternoon.
00:57:23Good afternoon.
00:57:25Ivan Yanov?
00:57:27Yes.
00:57:29My name is Marie Franquin.
00:57:31This is Professor Richard Fraser from the University of Glasgow.
00:57:35Did you know that Sabina Bealryne is from the White Nursery?
00:57:39Yes.
00:57:45Come in.
00:57:47Please.
00:57:49Please.
00:58:11What?
00:58:13I should stop pursuing you, Dr Young.
00:58:16Just because you're afraid of love.
00:58:39How do you do? I'm Dr Young's mistress.
00:58:42We haven't met before. I'm Dr Young's mistress.
00:58:45I'm so glad you could come. I'm Dr Young's mistress.
00:58:49Hello, Dr Young's mistress.
00:58:51I'm sleeping with Dr Young. I'm his mistress.
00:58:55My name is Sabina Bealryne. I'm Dr Young's mistress.
00:59:11Come in.
00:59:42I came here in order to humiliate you.
00:59:47Now that I'm here, all I want to do is reassure you.
00:59:50Tell you that I shall always love you.
00:59:54And that I wanted to die, but now I'm alive.
00:59:57And that's your doing.
00:59:59I shall never forget it.
01:00:01Pardon me.
01:00:03I believe you've missed the point.
01:00:05I'm sorry.
01:00:07I'm sorry.
01:00:08Pardon me.
01:00:10I believe you've mistaken me for someone else.
01:00:13I must leave now.
01:00:15Really, don't worry.
01:00:17I shall never bother you again.
01:00:20I should like your wife to know that I hold absolutely nothing against her.
01:00:24I'm sure she's a wonderful person.
01:00:27She must be if you chose her.
01:00:30Tell her I wish her every happiness.
01:00:34As I do for you two.
01:00:38It's going to be all right.
01:01:08I love you.
01:01:38Goodbye.
01:01:56In the 1920s, Sabina Spielrein qualified as a doctor in Switzerland.
01:02:01Sabina Spielrein.
01:02:05While Lenin was still alive, she had returned to Moscow with her husband, Pavel Shaftel,
01:02:14who was also a doctor, and their daughter, Renate.
01:02:23Dr. Spielrein was full of enthusiasm.
01:02:27Dr. Spielrein was very keen to make a contribution to the great dream of the Russian Revolution.
01:02:35Moscow at that time was a city electric with passion, with new ideas.
01:02:41People took to the streets every day to demonstrate their desire for change.
01:02:46What were they looking for? Heaven on earth, as Sabina used to say.
01:02:52And she was the first to believe it could be attained.
01:02:54How beautiful Moscow is.
01:02:58How it's changed.
01:03:17Sabina was a psychotherapist.
01:03:20After qualifying?
01:03:22After qualifying, Sabina had specialized in psychotherapy,
01:03:27and as soon as she was settled in Moscow, she started running an infant school,
01:03:33known as the White Nursery.
01:03:36It was called that because all the furniture in it was painted white.
01:03:43From the very beginning, Dr. Spielrein put all her theories about infant education into practice.
01:03:51And they were very advanced for those days.
01:03:54Her cardinal rule was to give the children the maximum amount of freedom.
01:04:00And the curriculum consisted largely of encouraging creativity,
01:04:04teaching music, and exploring the mysteries of the human body.
01:04:17One of the pupils was tremendously violent.
01:04:19He was always hitting the other children.
01:04:22He'd been enrolled under a false name.
01:04:25Only years later did we find out he was Stalin's son.
01:04:33Not even Sabina had known who he really was.
01:04:36Is that the one who became a general in the Red Army and went on to become an alcoholic?
01:04:46Yes.
01:04:47Yes.
01:04:50Poor Vasily.
01:04:52Another of his father's victims.
01:05:02Paul Schaftel and Sabina got together a few years after Sabina's break with Jung.
01:05:08So much for eternal love.
01:05:11She wanted to live with love, not die of it.
01:05:14But she never forgot Jung.
01:05:18THE REVOLUTION
01:05:23Dear friend, when I left Russia, there was a czar.
01:05:28I've come back to find a revolution.
01:05:31Lenin's going to have his work cut out transforming this almost illiterate country into a modern democracy.
01:05:38But everyone seems to be rolling up their sleeves.
01:05:41And I shall try to do my bit too.
01:05:44I think it's the first time a psychoanalyst has ever been put in charge of a nursery school.
01:05:52What I'd like to prove is that if you teach a child freedom from the beginning, he will grow up to be truly free.
01:06:00It's asking a lot, I know, and it won't be easy.
01:06:03But I feel passionately about it.
01:06:07A few nights ago, I dreamt I was a horse galloping across an endless plain.
01:06:13Perhaps that's what my life is.
01:06:16An endless plain.
01:06:20It's getting late, and I can't keep my eyes open.
01:06:26Best wishes.
01:06:29The keeper of your soul.
01:06:37Sabina Spielrein was truly extraordinary.
01:06:41She always had time for those children with particular problems.
01:06:49There was a little boy there who would sit under a table all day with his eyes closed.
01:06:59His hands were clasped so tight, it was as if his fingers were glued together.
01:07:05Every morning, Sabina would think up some way of coaxing him out of his isolation.
01:07:15Here you are.
01:07:18Let's try and get this apart.
01:07:26She refused to give up, but however hard she tried,
01:07:30it was impossible to get those hands apart.
01:07:38Then, one day, Sabina had a brainwave.
01:08:00Caravan! Caravan!
01:08:03If you want to get out,
01:08:06You have to get out of our caravan.
01:08:12This is how we are,
01:08:15This is how we are,
01:08:18This is how we are,
01:08:21This is how we are,
01:08:24This is how we are,
01:08:26This is how we are,
01:08:29This is how we are,
01:08:32This is how we are,
01:08:36That little boy
01:08:39That little boy
01:08:42Was me.
01:08:44Was me.
01:08:56I felt as if my hands were melting.
01:09:22For the first time in my life, I smiled.
01:09:48I shall never forget what Dr. Spirhein did for me.
01:09:59Inside the White Nursery, we were all happy, but outside, after Lenin's death, the country
01:10:08started to fall apart.
01:10:15My dear friend, I should be so happy today, because it is my daughter's birthday and because
01:10:28my book of essays is being published, but I hardly feel like celebrating.
01:10:34Our great poet, Mayakovsky, is dead.
01:10:38Accident?
01:10:39Or assassination?
01:10:40On the radio, Stalin said he committed suicide, and now this is the official version.
01:10:47Will we ever know the truth?
01:10:51With every day that passes, the darkness grows more overwhelming.
01:10:57It creeps into one's innermost being and sows seeds of terror.
01:11:04Last month, my parents were arrested without ever being told why.
01:11:09The truth is, the truth is that no one dares say aloud that we are ruled by a man who is
01:11:15mentally ill.
01:11:17Do you remember that phrase of Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian writer?
01:11:24God created him to be a hero, but the course of events turned him into a fool.
01:11:30Poor God.
01:11:32Stalin is mad.
01:11:34He was certified by his own doctor, a colleague of my husband's, who died shortly after, having
01:11:41eaten a cake at the cafeteria at the Bolshoi.
01:12:02Comrade Spielrein, this is yours, I believe.
01:12:16Sign here to say you disown it.
01:12:19Why?
01:12:20You published it without party permission, and the party does not like what you've written.
01:12:24What is it the party objects to?
01:12:26Your theories on freedom of thought and sexual liberation for children are provocative, and
01:12:31contrary to Marxist-Leninist principles.
01:12:34Not to mention what you have written about the car.
01:12:37The car is the symbol of capitalist decadence.
01:12:41But even Mayakovsky had a car.
01:12:44If I had been Mayakovsky, I would have been much more careful about having an accident.
01:13:01I advise you to do as you're told.
01:13:21Even if you kill me, even if you bury me, I shall rise again.
01:13:25Mayakovsky, comrade Zorin.
01:13:28Get on with it!
01:13:58Mayakovsky!
01:13:59Mayakovsky!
01:14:00Mayakovsky!
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01:15:26It hasn't all been forgotten.
01:15:29You're the living proof.
01:15:56Mayakovsky!
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01:16:26Mm.
01:16:29Pasternak's poems, I'm going to buy it for you.
01:16:34It's very nice.
01:16:36But I can't read them.
01:16:38Because historians don't read love poetry?
01:16:41No, because they are in Russian.
01:16:43I could read them to you, if you like.
01:16:55I'm going to go for a walk. It helps me sleep. I'll see you in the morning, eh?
01:17:11Take care. Moscow can be very dangerous at night.
01:17:14You've never been to Glasgow.
01:17:16Bye.
01:17:17See you.
01:17:19Bye.
01:17:20See you.
01:17:27Guardian Angel, now Psychoanalysis 2 has been officially banned.
01:17:33It's forbidden to treat patients, write about the subject, even talk about it.
01:17:41I've persuaded my husband to go back to Switzerland to cure his chest.
01:17:46Today my daughter and I are leaving for Rostov, where I was born.
01:17:50I hope to open a clandestine nursery there.
01:17:56There is no news on the radio, but everyone says that the Germans have invaded Russia and the Red Army is retreating.
01:18:05Please God that the Nazis won't get as far as Rostov.
01:18:10We Jews will be the first to suffer if they do.
01:18:14Nonetheless, I have faith in the future.
01:18:18I'm still the usual dreamer.
01:18:21If I don't keep dreaming, what sense would my life have?
01:18:44Rostov-on-Don
01:19:04Goodbye, Rostov!
01:19:06Goodbye!
01:19:07Let's go!
01:19:14We must leave Rostov!
01:19:16Let's go!
01:19:35Stop!
01:19:36Stop!
01:19:37Stop!
01:19:38Stop!
01:19:39Stop!
01:19:40Stop!
01:19:41Stop!
01:19:43Stop!
01:19:44Stop!
01:19:52Marnie?
01:19:55Marnie?
01:20:00Attention! The train from Moscow has arrived at platform number three.
01:20:06The train from Moscow has arrived at platform number three.
01:20:10Richard, I looked in on you before I left.
01:20:14How strange. We know everything about Sabina, but so little about each other.
01:20:20There's a poem by Pasternak that says,
01:20:22when you can't see into someone's soul, try going away, and then come back.
01:20:29I haven't run away, but I wanted to be alone for my last meeting with Sabina.
01:20:39Move over there!
01:20:42Come on!
01:20:45Move over there!
01:20:48Move over there!
01:21:09Stop shouting!
01:21:11Stop shouting!
01:21:15Stop shouting!
01:21:23I want your people to shut up.
01:21:25You can't do that!
01:21:27You can't do that!
01:21:28That's God's temple!
01:21:31I want your people to kneel!
01:21:34Have mercy! Have mercy on the children and women!
01:21:36Stand on your knees.
01:21:40Stand on your knees.
01:22:06Stand on your knees.
01:22:36Stand on your knees.
01:22:38Stand on your knees.
01:22:40Stand on your knees.
01:22:42Stand on your knees.
01:22:44Stand on your knees.
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01:22:50Stand on your knees.
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01:22:58Stand on your knees.
01:23:00Stand on your knees.
01:23:02Stand on your knees.
01:23:04Stand on your knees.
01:23:26My name was Sabina Spielright.
01:23:28When I am dead, I want Dr. Jung to have my head.
01:23:33Only he is to open and dissect it.
01:23:36I want my body to be cremated
01:23:39and the ashes to be scattered beneath an oak tree
01:23:42on which is written,
01:23:44I, too, was a human being.
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