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Freud

1984, English, on BBC Two. Created by Carey Harrison.

A portrait of the great psychoanalyst.

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.

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Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Episode length
60 min
Status
Ended in 1984

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First aired
14 September 1984
Last aired
19 October 1984
Network
BBC Two
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
Type
Miniseries
miniseriesperiod dramahistorical drama19th centurycarl jung20th centurybased on real personbiographical drama

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Freud has 1 season and 6 episodes, about 60 minutes each.

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Freud was created by Carey Harrison and stars David Suchet, David Swift, Helen Bourne.

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