Geheimnisse einer Seele (1925)

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With a brilliant tip of the hat to Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German filmmaker G.W. Pabst offers Secrets of a Soul, a convoluted tale of a chemistry professor (Caligari's Werner Krauss) haunted by inexplicable resentments. The professor doesn't really dislike his wife's cousin, who is returning after several years in India: why, then do thoughts of murder keep entering his head? The dream sequences--to which Pabst gave credence by hiring two of Freud's assistants as consultants--elaborate upon existing Freudian symbolism to the bursting point. Pabst had always been fascinated by the subconscious; here he seems intoxicated by the subject. Especially effective is Pabst's use of multiple dissolves and superimpositions, all accomplished "in the camera" without any post-production lab work. Originally titled Geheimnisse einer Seele. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Starring:: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, (more)

Director(s):: G.W. Pabst

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of Geheimnisse einer Seele

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 75 mins

Complete Cast of Geheimnisse einer Seele

Werner Krauss - Martin Feliman
Renata Brausewetter - Dienstmaedchen
Pavel Pavlov - Dr. Charles Orth
Hertha Von Walther - Fellmans Assistentin

Ruth Weyher - His wife
Ilka Gruning - The mother
Jack Trevor - Erich

Director(s):: G.W. Pabst

Writer(s):: Hanns Sachs, Karl Abraham, Colin Ross

Producer(s):: Hans Neumann

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	Tina B.

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Strictly for silent movie buffs seeking something different. Most know Pabst for 'Pandora's Box' and Krauss for 'Caligari" and this movie is a bit more on the Caligari side when you consider the dream sequences and the attempts to solve the hero's problems through the use of the then still "in its' infancy" field of psychotherapy (in fact, a colleague of Freud's did some technical work for the movie until he had a falling out with the moviemakers -- Freud was suspicious from the beginning). The basic story: a scientist who adores his wife (and childhood sweetheart), but finds himself having inexplicable nightmares when her cousin -- and a friend from both their childhoods -- returns from his exotic adventures in the East. Is there actually something between the wife and her cousin (one dream has her in a harem with the cousin as sheik), or is jealousy driving him towards an Othello-type rage? And can psychotherapy save him? Watched it twice, but as I said, definitely for buffs.

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