Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926)

Director:

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Writers:

Karl Abraham, Hans Neumann,

Stars:

Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning

Cast

Cast overview:
Werner Krauss	...	Martin Fellman
Ruth Weyher	...	Seine frau
Ilka Grüning	...	Die mutter
Jack Trevor	...	Erich
Pavel Pavlov	...	Dr. Orth (as Pawel Pawloff)
Hertha von Walther	...	Fellmans Assistentin
Renate Brausewetter	...	Dienstmaedchen
Colin Ross	...	Kriminalkommissar

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

murder | dream sequence | mental health | trauma | husband wife relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

19 February 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Secrets of a Soul

Company Credits

Production Co:

Neumann-Filmproduktion

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 68 min 75 min (DVD edition)

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Part of Universum Film AG's (the Ufa Studios) Kulturfilm Abteilung, a special division of the studio whose task it was to develop educational and intellectual films.

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Connections

Featured in Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)

User Reviews

Freud and Horror

This film appears to be a relative to the common horror film and beautifully carves out its closeness to the psychoanalysis: Everyone who's busy with that genre can benefit from the Pabst film. It becomes pretty obvious during the insane and worth seeing dream sequences which foreshadows an Andalusian dog shot three years later. In a period of several minutes they form a phantasmagoric island within the film, which is continually reverted to during the analytic situations. An aesthetic experience of an unique quality, tremendously powerful in its imagery. But on the whole, the film has the effect of being too reduced, even perhaps reducing, too trimmed and too coarse in respect of content.