This brilliant study of psychosis, religious freedom and deluded fanaticism is a moving and unique film based on a real story. In 1903, Daniel Paul Schreber published a shocking and celebrated autobiography about 'madness from within'. Up until middle age he was a highly respected judge until one morning he awoke having had a dream that would eventually lead to his long confinement in an asylum. Shock Head Soul follows Schreber from respectability to madness mixing reconstruction, live-action drama and comments from contemporary pyschiatrists to plot this mesmerising... real-life event. [show more]
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. This brilliant study of psychosis, religious freedom and deluded fanaticism is a moving and unique film based on a real story. In 1903, Daniel Paul Schreber published a shocking and celebrated autobiography about 'madness from within'. Up until middle age he was a highly respected judge until one morning he awoke having had a dream that would eventually lead to his long confinement in an asylum. Shock Head Soul follows Schreber from respectability to madness mixing reconstruction, live-action drama and comments from contemporary pyschiatrists to plot this mesmerising real-life event.
Simon Pummell directs this documentary drama about one man's madness, based on a true story. Daniel Paul Schreber, here portrayed by Hugo Koolschijn, was a successful judge who, in 1893, started to receive messages from God, leading to him spending the next nine years in an asylum. During his time in confinement, Schreber wrote his celebrated autobiography 'Memoirs of My Nervous Illness' which, when published in 1903, immediately became an influential study in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The film charts Schreber's descent into madness, blending documentary interview, live-action drama and CGI animation to tell his fascinating story.
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