Low-budget historical fiction. USA.
An adaptation of Alain Didier-Weill’s play Vienne 1913. Set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the film draws together a trio of unlikely bedfellows: Sigmund Freud (Alan Cumming), a young and embittered Adolf Hitler (Samuel H. Levine), and Hugo (Liam Aiken), a privileged yet tormented pianist caught between the poles of reason and revulsion. That Freud and Hitler were contemporaries in the city is historical fact; that they might be drawn into this triangular, symbolic dance of ideas and influence is the film’s bold hypothesis.
Cara Corrigan is the one with the pearl necklace.
