The Century of the Self (2002)
The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
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Cast
Adam Curtis
as Narrator
Adam Curtis (born 1955) is an award-winning British documentarian and writer. He has also worked as a television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.
Anne Bernays
as Self
Anne Bernays is an American novelist, editor, and teacher.Daughter of Edward Bernays, known as "the father of Public Relations," and the grandniece of Sigmund Freud..
Robert Reich
as Self
Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and served a...
Edward L. Bernays
as Self (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud
as Self (archive footage)
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psyc...
Director
Adam Curtis
