Sigmund Freud visits Simmel in Tegel home movies

This film was made during a visit by Sigmund Freud to Sanatorium Schloss Tegel and Psychoanalytische Klinik, opened by Ernst Simmel in Berlin in 1927. The 1906 building was renovated for Simmel by Freud s son Ernst L. Freud, an architect then practicing in Berlin. Sigmund Freud was a frequent guest at Tegel before the sanatorium closed in 1931. This film is likely to have been made in the fall of 1928 while Freud was in Berlin to have a new prosthesis made for his cancerous jaw and palate. The film depicts Freud on the grounds of the sanatorium, assisting a group of children in harvesting what appear to be chestnuts. Among the adults present are Anna Freud, Ernst L. Freud and his wife Lucie Freud, and Princess Marie Bonaparte.