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Freud
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Manuel Ossenkopf
Frantisek Mucha
8 eps
Robert Finster
Sigmund Freud
8 eps
Georg Friedrich
Alfred Kiss
8 eps
Ella Rumpf
Fleur Salomé
8 eps
Brigitte Kren
Lenore
8 eps
Anja Kling
Gräfin Sophia
8 eps
Philipp Hochmair
Graf Viktor Szápáry
8 eps
Christoph Krutzler
Franz Poschacher
8 eps
Mercedes Müller
Martha Bernays
8 eps
Alina Fritsch
Fanny Kiss
8 eps
Rainer Bock
Theodor Meynert
8 eps
Merab Ninidze
Josef Breuer
8 eps
Lukas Miko
Georg von Lichtenberg
8 eps
Lukas Thomas Watzl
Leopold von Schönfeld
8 eps
Pavel Fieber
Jakob Freud (Vater)
8 eps
Marie-Lou Sellem
Amalia Freud (Mutter)
8 eps
Daniela Golpashin
Anna Freud (Schwester)
8 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Freud actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Freud reads strongest on Serialized, Tension and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Marvin KrenExecutive Producer
- Heinrich AmbroschProducer
- Moritz PolterProducer
Writing
- Marvin KrenWriter
- Benjamin HesslerWriter
- Stefan BrunnerWriter
Direction
- Marvin KrenDirector
Cinematography
- Markus NestroyDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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