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THE TOBACCONIST

DER TRAFIKANT

By Nikolaus LEYTNER

MOVING STORY ENTERTAINMENT - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, AUSTRALIA

Jewish - Completed 2018

A young man develops a friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Jewish, Art - Culture, Historical
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Nikolaus LEYTNER
- Cast
- Bruno GANZ
- Synopsis
- Vienna under Nazi occupation is the setting for this ravishingly shot wartime drama about a young man and his unlikely friendship with Sigmund Freud. Franz arrives in the city as a 17-year-old to apprentice at a tobacco shop, where the elderly psychoanalyst is a regular customer, and the two develop an immediate bond. When Franz falls desperately in love with a music hall dancer named Anezka, he turns to Freud for advice, who tells him the female sex remains as mysterious to him as it was when he was Franz’s age. As war approaches and the city descends into turmoil, the dramas of this young man’s life are swept up into the larger events that are shaking the foundations of Europe and the world. Based on the international bestseller by Robert Seethaler, starring Bruno Ganz as Sigmund Freud.