Alan Cumming as Freud in V13
“V13” a Film by Richard C. Ledes
In forgetting there lurks a remembering
Director’s Statement
I wrote the screenplay for my film V13 based on the play Vienne 1913 by the late renowned French Lacanian psychoanalyst Alain Didier-Weill. He spent his life researching and reflecting on the rise of the Nazi Weltanschaung . The roots of his interest no doubt go back to the experiences of his own Jewish family during the Occupation of France. he ALSO felt it was important for ALL OF humanity to examine this poisonous ideology—just as Freud had felt psychoanalysis was important for all of humanity. ALAIN saw that the scapegoating of Jews and other vulnerable minorities to consolidate the power of extreme forms of ethnic nationalism and religious fundamentalism was increasing again and was not just a phenomenon of the past. For This Reason, I chose to TAKE THE Bronx Today for Vienna before WW1—with an assist from the other bOroughs of New York City.
Richard C. Ledes
Synopsis
Vienna 1913, while Europe is on the brink of WW1, two young men from different backgrounds, Hugo and Adolf, become friends. One, A Musician FROM A PRIVILEGED BACKGROUND, Chooses to undergo psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, while the other, a struggling artist obsessed with vegetarianism, TAKES UP THE CAUSE OF German nationalism.
Cast
Adolf
Samuel H. Levine
Hugo
Liam Aiken
Molly
India Ennenga
Carl Jung
Andrew Stewart-Jones
Lieberman
Ronald Guttman
With
Ida Buono
Cara
Alan Cumming
Freud