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THE STRANGE CASE OF WILHELM REICH

by Antonin Svoboda

Drama | AUT | 2012 | 111 min

 

SYNOPSIS​

At the end of his life, Wilhelm Reich – psychiatrist and experimental scientist searching for the fundamentals of life – finds himself on trial, charged with deception. His dream of liberating human individuality makes him a dangerous opponent of an American system that is striving after 1945 for global hegemony, using all available means. Was it madness to believe in man’s liberty or was Reich simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, and being a holistic global thinker, accurately observing fa-reaching socio-political linkages? Ten years after his mysterious death, his writings, once burnt by the US FDA, become an important source of inspiration for a ’68 generation in revolt.

CAST

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Julia Jentsch

Jamie Sives

Jeanette Hain

Birgit Minichmayr

Kenny Doughty

Gary Lewis

Max Deacon

Shaun Nicholas Aylward

Michael J. Shannon

Markus Schleinzer

CREW

Director Antonin Svoboda

Screenplay Antonin Svoboda

Camera Martin Gschlacht

Sound Odo Grötschnig

Editing Oliver Neumann

Art direction Katharina Wöppermann

Costume Tanja Hausner

Producers Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr