Sigmund Freud vacationing in Poetzleinsdorf (Vienna), Austria
Creator(s)
- The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Scope and Content
Head title, "Freud, Sigmund at Poetzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria, between 1925 and 1935." Title, "Freud on Holiday, 1920, Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1983." Nice views of Freud. [One web source on Freud chronology identifies Poetzleinsdorf under the year 1931 as: "Weakened by an operation for cancer, Freud spends the summer in a rented villa in the Vienna suburb of Poetzleinsdorf."] Various shots of Freud at the lake home and on the porch, talking with friends - women, men, and children. Mountains in BG. Man with glasses, next to automobile. Garden, with statue and table and chairs. INT, home, CUs of framed photos (dark). EXT, women in yard. Quick pan, EXT, home. Freud reading on lounge chair, in garden. Women at table, talking and eating. CUs, Freud reading, a dog at his side. [The dog was apparently given to Freud in 1928 by Dorothy Burlingham.] Man smoking, with hippy woman. At gate to villa, statue, EXTs, the grounds. Freud and woman walking in yard.
Note(s)
Scenes include his daughter Anna and Princess Maria Bonaparte. Presumably, one woman is his wife and one is her sister. No identity of others in the film, especially the men.
People
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Subjects
- LAKES
- WOMEN
- AUSTRIA
- DOCTORS
- VACATIONS
Places
- Poetzleinsdorf, Austria
Genre
- Film
- Amateur.