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Elisabeth Márton was born in Stuttgart in 1952. She has resided in Sweden since 1973. She studied psychology, film and theatre and worked as a critic and director's assistant. In 1990 she finished director's studies at the Film Academy in Budapest.Director's Statement
Since Sabina Spielrein reemerged from oblivion through the discovery of her correspondence with Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, numerous publications and interpretations of her life story and scientific work have appeared. The spectrum of phrases about her ranges from "tragic victim" through "incest victim" to "seduction on the couch", "scandalous connivance between Jung and Freud", and the feminist variant, the "victim as heroine".
My intension in making this feature-documentary is primarily to create a cinematic counter-image to the above fragmentary and often negative views, one that deals with Sabina’s many-sided personality, her story and her work.
Classical elements of documentary films such as inserts from historical documents and photographs, archive films and newsreels will convey the objectivity of the film story, interwoven with subjective scenes from Sabina Spielrein’s inner world.
