Freudian trip: psychoanalyst’s London home recreated in Dublin for major film

Sigmund Freud in 1938 at his home in Hampstead, London, which is now the Freud Museum. Photograph: API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

The north London home of Sigmund Freud is being recreated in Dublin for a major feature film in which Sir Anthony Hopkins, the Oscar-winning actor, will star as the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis.

It will include the study, complete with reconstructions of his famous psychoanalytic couch and other possessions. Freud had meticulously arranged them in his suburban Hampstead house to look just like the study that he had left behind in Vienna in escaping Nazi persecution in 1938.