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Knightley will play Sabina Spielrein, who inspired Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
Actress Keira Knightley, currently starring in the West End production of The Misanthrope, has reportedly signed up for the lead in director David Cronenberg's first film in three years.
In The Talking Cure, Knightley will play Sabina Spielrein, a brilliant and beautiful young woman who is said to have inspired some of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud's most remarkable discoveries.
Cronenberg has also cast Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender, who starred together in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. Waltz will play Freud with Fassbender as Jung.
Spielrein, a Russian Jew born in 1885, was one of the first female psychoanalysts. She studied medicine after spending several years as a psychiatric patient of first Jung and then Freud.
The Talking Cure is based on Christopher Hampton's 2003 play of the same name. Hampton's play focuses on the relationship between Spielrein and Jung when she became Jung's first patient at the Burghölzli mental hospital near Zurich in 1904.
It is the third project in three years which Cronenberg, director of The Fly, Crash and A History of Violence, has tried to get off the ground. One film, The Matarese Circle, collapsed earlier this year when one of its leads, Tom Cruise, chose to star in James Mangold's Knight & Day instead. Cronenberg then turned to an adaptation of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis which was due to begin in 2010.
News of Cronenberg's latest film was reported on the Playlist film blog after an Australian distributor, Hopscotch Films, claimed on Facebook that it had bought the rights to the film.
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