TV Series

Freud (1984)

• First aired September 14, 1984
• Seasons: 1 · Episodes: 6
• 1h 0m per episode

• Drama

“A portrait of the great psychoanalyst.”

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.

Created by

Carey Harrison

Starring

David Suchet, David Swift, Helen Bourne