Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.
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Borivoje Stojanovic
- Professor von Schmertz
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- TriviaAccording to his autobiography, in 1983 Klaus Kinski told producer Peer J. Oppenheimer that he would agree to star in this film, as long as he arranged for him a night of sex in Munich with an actress (clearly Constanze Engelbrecht) who at the time was shooting in Budapest a film (Viadukt (1983)) produced by Oppenheimer himself. "I don't know her and I've never seen any of her movies. I don't even realize that she's Germany's biggest female movie star. All I know is that I got a boner when I saw a photo of her face in a newspaper. I tell the guy that I'll do his fucking movie if I can fuck the star. He's to phone her. This instant. Now. She's to hop a plane today and come. For one night. She comes. The three of us have dinner at the Hilton. Then we send the guy away and she comes to my room. She has the longest vaginal lips I've ever licked and stuck my horny cock into. Then I ram into her from behind. Her face is on its side on the mattress so that I can see her swollen mouth, which shamelessly twists in dreadful passion. After I shoot my second load in her, she has to fly back."- Kinski wrote.
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30 minutes of fun, 30 minutes of tedium and 30 minutes of torture
Not a good film by any means, The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud's best attributes are the CAMPY performances of its veteran camp cast. Carol Kane is as adorable as always, though many of her lines are, like the rest of the script, predictable and uninspiring. Perhaps the saddest aspect of this film, however, is the fact that it was the last major film with the brilliant Klaus Kinski, and his role was so far from a signature piece it's almost an embarrassment.
The plot is pretty silly, and follows a very predictable formula. Sigmund Freud is shown as a young doctor full of neuroses about blood and various other things doctors are not supposed to be concerned with. As he grows into the profession he more or less invented, hypnotism of his patients yields their own self-diagnoses, and he gets rich and famous writing down his patients' ideas. within the last ten minutes or so, a plot develops, simply so the film can end properly, but it's far too late.
Overall, I would characterize this film as tedious. Unlike a few others who have reviewed it, I don't think it really had any potential to begin with, though I did enjoy some of Carol Kane's scenes. My advice is to avoid this one.
The plot is pretty silly, and follows a very predictable formula. Sigmund Freud is shown as a young doctor full of neuroses about blood and various other things doctors are not supposed to be concerned with. As he grows into the profession he more or less invented, hypnotism of his patients yields their own self-diagnoses, and he gets rich and famous writing down his patients' ideas. within the last ten minutes or so, a plot develops, simply so the film can end properly, but it's far too late.
Overall, I would characterize this film as tedious. Unlike a few others who have reviewed it, I don't think it really had any potential to begin with, though I did enjoy some of Carol Kane's scenes. My advice is to avoid this one.
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By what name was The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984) officially released in Canada in English?
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