*The British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive in London at has a copy of Nineteen Nineteen available for viewing Collage made from snapshots thanks to Dolores for Colin Firth Career Timeline  The three pictures [right] show Colin as young Alexander mock fencing with his sister Nina, his anguished face as he rests his sword on her heart. The loversis a detail from a painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt. Snaps of  Colin thanks to Dolores for Colin Firth Career Timeline  The film, shot largely indoors, has a certain theatre feeling to it. It is magnificently played with long shots which allow the actors to develope and express the characters and their emotional turmoil. And, although Colin's screentime is limited, what we see is very moving. Like in the scene on the left during one of young Alexander's sessions with dr Freud: on the couch in Freuds's cold and rather dark consulting room, Colin's face expresses Alexander's sorrow, anguish and despair over his love for his sister.

Summary:

Maria Schell (Sophie) and Paul Scofield (Alexander) turn in magnificent performances as former patients of Freud who meet for the first time in Vienna in 1970. Sophie convinces a wary Alexander to meet after she sees him interviewed on TV about his experience with Freud. In their one-day encounter, in a reluctant Alexander's cluttered apartment, the two sit down to talk.

Sophie is now a divorced New Yorker of nearly 70, Alexander is a lonely widower; both still harbor resentment of Freud's treatment of their youthful "problems." Their personal narratives, shown in flashback, are poignant; Freud is an unseen but vivid presence in the therapy scences.

Dealing with psychoanalysis and passion, 1919 most certainly isn't what you may call "light entertainment". Two childhood friends meet some 50 years later in an apartment in Vienna, they visit Freud's consulting rooms [now museum] and talk about their lives. Both Alexander Scherbatov and Sophie Rubin are [fictive] patients to Sigmund Freud and we see flashbacks from their therapy sessions, interlaced with authentic film clips. Alexander is a Russian aristocrat, haunted by his incestuous longing for his sister Nina. Sophie, whos parents sent her to Freud, rejects his efforts to "cure" her from her passion for a woman.

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Runtime: 99 min

Country: UK

Language: English

Color: Black and White / Color

Sound Mix: Mono

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