Starring
Jefferson Mays as Daniel Paul Schreber
Robert Cucuzza as Dr. Emil Paul Flechsig
Lara Milian as Sabine Schreber
Joe Coleman as Moritz Schreber

Director
Julian Hobbs
Screenplay by
Julian Hobbs, Domenick Taylor,
Fred Tietz, and Allen S. Weitz
Producers
Anne Feinsilber
Chris Trent
Co-Producer
Kevin Lombard
Director of Photography
Kevin Lombard
Production Designer
Fred Tietz
Costume Designer
Lee Harper
Hair and Makeup
Michele Coursey
Hegen Linss
1st Assistant Director
Jason Rossi
2nd Assistant Director
Ryan Verniere
Assistant Camera
Daedra Kaehler
Sound Engineers
Andy Edelman
Mike Decker
Grip
Caleb Smith
Gaffer
Shawn Sullivan
Editor
Joey Grossfield

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In the autumn of 1893, distinguished German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, suffering from anxiety and insomnia, committed himself to Liepzig Sanatorium. Over the next five years, in the heavily medicated care of the esteemed Dr. Emil Paul Flechsig, Schreber descended further into madness, ultimately believing that his divine mission was to redeem humanity to its lost state of blessedness by transforming into a woman and immaculately conceiving the child of God.

Schreber documented his every thought and vision into a journal, resulting in Memoirs of my Nervous Illness, "perhaps the most revealing dispatch ever received from the far side of madness." Part religious manifesto, part legal document, part Gothic novel, the journal is a masterpiece of psychological insight, filled with intrigue and revelation. As Sigmund Freud observed: "The wonderful Schreber ought to have been made a director of a mental hospital."

Filmmaker Julian Hobbs, award-winning designer Fred Tietz, and Schreber scholar Allan S. Weiss have scripted a visionary drama drawn directly from Schreber's writings, illuminating one man's harrowing journey to the limits of human experience.