On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Acting
Hopkins at 85, still devouring scenery with dentures.
Production
Freud's study: cluttered, claustrophobic, aggressively Viennese.
Director
Matt Brown
Anthony Hopkins
Sigmund Freud
Matthew Goode
C. S. Lewis
Liv Lisa Fries
Anna Freud
Jodi Balfour
Dorothy Burlingham
Jeremy Northam
Ernest Jones
Stephen Campbell Moore
J. R. R. Tolkien
Orla Brady
Janie Moore
David Shields
Weldon
Tarek Bishara
Jacob Freud
Pádraic Delaney
Warren Lewis
Rhys Mannion
Young C. S. Lewis
Anna Amalie Blomeyer
Ilsa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Lewis and Freud never met; the play/film invents their encounter entirely.
Released during Hopkins's late-career renaissance—between 'The Father' Oscar and 'Armageddon Time'—this continues his obsession with mortality and memory.
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