WORLD PREMIERE in NYC with actor alan Cumming
Join us on April 3rd at 7pm for the Premiere Screening of V13 with a Q&A to follow with director Richard C. Ledes and Alan Cumming. Tickets available now.
Director’s Statement
I wrote the screenplay for V13 based on a play by the renowned French psychoanalyst and writer Alain Didier-Weill. Researching and reflecting on the rise of extreme German nationalism in Vienna before WWI and how it gave rise to the ideology of Nazism after were lifelong pursuits of Didier-Weill. He was himself analyzed by Jacques Lacan, the controversial French psychoanalyst who was one of the most important intellectual figures of the 20th century.
The roots of his interest, no doubt, go back to the experiences of his own Jewish family during the occupation of France but also to his conviction that it was important for all of humanity to examine the roots of the Nazi ideology—just as Freud had felt psychoanalysis was important for all of humanity.
Filmed overtly in New York City, V13 raises unsettling questions about the relation between this moment in the past and the rise of ethnonationalism in the present.
— Richard C. Ledes
Host A Screening
Online screenings with the filmmaker present are available for groups. Groups will have access to the film for 96 hours book-ended around a discussion with the filmmaker over zoom or other form of online conferencing. For more information request a screening below.
Alan Cumming as Freud in V13
Cast
Adolf
Samuel H. Levine
Hugo
Liam Aiken
Molly
India Ennenga
Carl Jung
Andrew Stewart-Jones
Lieberman
Ronald Guttman
With
Ida
Cara Buono
Freud
Alan Cumming
Pre-release Quotes
“A complex portrait of the impossible profession at a vertiginous moment in history, Richard Ledes’s film, V13,asks whether the talking cure can also cure society’s ills. Shot in luscious black-and-white, select locations in today’s Bronx stand in for turn-of-the-century Vienna, where Sigmund Freud (Alan Cummings) is confronted with a troubling new patient–a young man (Liam Aiken) tormented by his own hatred of Jews. Set against a background of rising fascism, we are given a startlingly modern vision of Freud, sensitive and wise beyond any patient’s wildest dreams. This ambitious and thoughtful film resonates with the concerns of today.”
“V13 is dense, intense and impactful. It is full of important questions regarding the history of psychoanalysis, political history of the 20th century and the political moment through which the world is now passing.”
“I found V13 quite absorbing—more like a night at the theater than a movie experience, but a very good theater experience.(Paradoxically, the most “cinematic” moments seem to be those that show the psychoanalysis taking place in a theater.”