This brilliant study of psychosis, religious freedom and deluded fanaticism is a moving and unique film based on a real story. In 1903, Daniel Paul Schreber published a shocking and celebrated autobiography about 'madness from within'. Up until middle age he was a highly respected judge until one morning he awoke having had a dream that would eventually lead to his long confinement in an asylum. Shock Head Soul follows Schreber from respectability to madness mixing reconstruction, live-action drama and comments from contemporary pyschiatrists to plot this mesmerising real-life event.
