Hysteria
Hysteria- Director
- Tanya Wexler
- Country
- United kingdom, France, Germany, Luxemburg
- Year
- 2011
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Stephen Dyer / Jonah Lisa Dyer
- Cast
- Hugh Dancy / Maggie Gyllenhaal / Jonathan Pryce / Rupert Everett / Felicity Jones
- Production
- Informant Media / Forthcoming Productions
Storyline
Mortimer Granville is a brilliant young doctor; he takes modern science as seriously as he does his solemn Hippocratic Oath. Unfortunately, his rigour goes unappreciated by most of his peers. They dismiss Dr. Granville’s enthusiasm for what they deem fadish new ideas — ideas such as his “germ theory.” Mortimer is nearly ready to give up on medicine altogether when he meets Dr. Robert Dalrymple, London’s “foremost specialist in women’s medicine.” That lofty title means that Dalrymple is an expert in “hysteria,” a malaise diagnosed so liberally that Dalrymple hypothesizes at least half the city’s women are sufferers. To ease these patients’ stress, he has developed a form of therapy that involves the careful manual stimulation of a certain female body part. In this period of sexual repression, it never occurs to Dalrymple that these housewives are experiencing something more basic and natural than a mysterious epidemic of insanity: horniness.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Rome Film Festival 2011
In Competition
Releases
Spain (15 of June 2012)
France (14 of December 2011)
Denmark (1 of December 2011)
Call for proposals Distribution Selective
Media support 27,000.00€
Selective Scheme call 30/2011
Company who received the MEDIA support:
Scanbox Entertainment As; Italy (BIM Distribuzione - 100.000 €)
Distribution:
Paradiso Entertainment BV (Netherlands)
Haut et Court (France)
Vértigo Films (Spain)
BIM Distribuzione (Italy)
