The Soul Keeper

The Soul Keeper

Directed by Roberto Faenza

Produced by Jean Vigo Italia, Les Films du Centaure

200390 min6.6 / 10

A sweeping historical drama tracing an intense, ethically fraught love affair between a pioneering psychiatrist and his patient against the backdrop of early psychoanalysis and 20th-century upheaval.

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Soul Keeper sad? Yes, very. More sad than 96% of films.

  • Is The Soul Keeper scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 58% of films.

  • Is The Soul Keeper violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does The Soul Keeper end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Soul Keeper easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

44/ 100

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Rarity57

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Surprise29

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Love50

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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