Film Screening – V13: In Forgetting There Lurks a Remembering

Join us for the UK premiere of V13, featuring a post-screening Q&A with the director and exclusive after-hours access to the Freud Museum.

Your Ticket Includes

After Hours Museum Access
Explore Freud’s final home, including his iconic study and consulting room, preserved just as he left them.

UK Premiere Screening of V13
Discover V13, an extraordinary new film set in pre WWI Vienna, where the early days of psychoanalysis meet the rising tide of nationalism.

Live Q&A with Director Richard C. Ledes
Engage with the filmmaker behind V13 in an intimate post screening discussion about the film's creation and historical relevance.

Access to Our Special Exhibition
View our latest exhibition Holly Stevenson: Tracing the Irretraceable.

Complimentary Welcome Drink
Enjoy a drink in Freud’s elegant dining room or the peaceful museum garden before the screening begins.

Event Schedule

Doors Open 6:00 PM
Film Screening Begins 6:30 PM
Q&A with the Director 8:20 PM
Event Ends 9:00 PM

About the Film:

Vienna, 1913, Europe is on the brink of WWI. Two young men become friends: Hugo, a musician from a privileged family, tries psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, while Adolf, a struggling artist obsessed with vegetarianism, falls in love with German nationalism.

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

Film Credits

Director & Screenwriter: Richard C. Ledes

Based on the Play: Vienne 1913 by Alain Didier-Weill

Cinematography: Antonio Rossi

Editor: Richard C. Ledes

Original Score: Silent Strike

Production Design: Kory Diskin

Costume Design: Sofija Mesicek

Producers: Richard C. Ledes, Daniel Sollinger

Main Cast

Freud: Alan Cumming

Adolf: Samuel H. Levine

Hugo: Liam Aiken

Molly: India Ennenga

Jung: Andrew Stewart-Jones

Lieberman: Ronald Guttman

Ida: Cara Buono

Critical Acclaim

“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 Cumming) 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.”

Leslie Camhi, cultural critic and historian of psychoanalysis

“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.”

Betty Fuks, author of the book, Freud and the Invention of Jewishness

“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.”

Jonathan Rosenbaum, American film critic and author, most recently of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

The live Q&A with director Richard C. Ledes will be chaired by Janet Haney.

Janet Haney is a psychoanalyst in London and a translator of Laura Sokolowsky's groundbreaking book Psychoanalysis Under Nazi Occupation: The Origins, Impact, and Influence of the Berlin Institute (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022).

Ticket Info

Freud Museum Members and Patrons receive 20% off the standard ticket price on all events, courses, conferences and On Demand programming.

Note: The event will be held on the first floor of the Museum. Unfortunately the Freud Museum does not have step-free access at this time.

All tickets are non-refundable.

The purpose of this event is to raise funds for the Freud Museum London, which receives no regular public income.