Director Marvin Kren Boards Austrian-German Drama Freud

VIENNA/BERLIN: Filmmaker Marvin Kren has joined the crime series Freud, developed by Bavaria Fernsehproduktion and Satel Film, serving as co-creator and director.

The German-Austrian co-production was recently featured in the CoPro Series pitch at the Berlinale as the only German-language production of a total of seven international projects. Freud has been invited to screen at Series Mania as well. Shooting on the series is expected to start in 2018.

Freud tells the story of the young psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in Vienna of 1886. Freud’s revolutionary theories encounter opposition from his colleagues and the society. It is exactly at that moment that he, supported by the war veteran and police officer László Kiss and the medium Fleur Salomé, engages in a nerve-wracking chase after a mysterious serial killer.

Moritz Polter (Bavaria Fernsehproduktion) and Heinrich Ambrosch (Satel Film), executive producers of the series, commented: “Marvin created with 4 Blocks, a gangster series taking place in Berlin, an authentic and visually stunning piece of work. This forceful and intense narrative style is very new to German television. It’s precisely this dynamic style and narrative power that we want for the series Freud.”

Kren added: “I more or less grew up underneath Sigmund Freud’s original sofa, meaning: in the same district in Vienna where he had his office. The difference: When I was born the world already profited from Sigmund Freud’s groundbreaking discoveries for almost a century. We, the modern human beings, live in post-Freudian times. It is very appealing and challenging for me to imagine a world in this series in which the ‘self’ was just a blind spot on the map of cognition, a world that hasn’t seen Sigmund Freud yet. I would like to immerse with Freud into Vienna’s dark alleys before the turn of the century, to discover the reflection of the labyrinth of the human soul inspiring his life’s work. Abysmal, dubious and dangerous!“