Screening Dates: 8 February 2026, Sunday, 6:30 pm / 6 March 2026, Friday, 8:00 pm / 27 March 2026, Friday, 8:00 pm

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Based on the novel by John Palmer and Hilary St. George Saunders; Ben Hecht
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck

USA / 1945 / 111 min / Black & White / English / Turkish subtitles

Dr. Constance Petersen, a young psychoanalyst working at a psychiatric hospital, is regarded as cold and emotionally distant by a colleague whose interest she does not return. With the arrival of the hospital’s new director—a young and handsome man—this perception is soon revealed to be unfounded. Moreover, the new director responds to Petersen’s feelings. Yet there are dark areas he conceals, as well as others hidden from him by his own unconscious.

Although Hitchcock’s detached approach to using psychoanalysis as material for suspense and melodrama has been subject to criticism, it can nevertheless be argued that by introducing these motifs into Hollywood narrative cinema, the film offers one of the earliest serious representations of the unconscious in popular film. The dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí, the film’s most famous passage, was largely reshot after initial production; the version we see today reveals how Dalí’s imagery was tempered within the studio system.

Miklós Rózsa’s score is also notable as one of the early examples to use the theremin as the sound of psychological disturbance and obsession.

*Special thanks to our main program sponsor Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi for their support.