Freud

Name: Freud
Genre: Drama
Released: 1984-09-14
Rating: 5
Cast: David Suchet, David Swift, Helen Bourne

A portrait of the great psychoanalyst.

5.0First aired 1984-09-14Last aired 1984-10-19Status: Ended

Drama

Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Networks: BBC Two

Overview

Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Each episode begins with Freud and his family in London, where they had fled from Vienna in 1938 following the Nazi Anschluss, leading up to Freud's death a little over a year later. The rest of the episodes are told mainly in flashbacks to key moments in Freud's life and career