Secrets of a Soul
A Psychoanalytic Thriller
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
- 6.2
- 1926
- Released
- 1h 15m
Werner Krauss
Martin Fellman
Ruth Weyher
Seine frau
Ilka Grüning
Die Mutter
Jack Trevor
Erich
Lili Damita
(uncredited)
Pavel Pavlov
Dr. Orth (as Pawel Pawloff)
Hertha von Walther
Fellmans Assistentin
Renate Brausewetter
Dienstmaedchen
Released
de
- #trauma
- #dream interpretation
- #mental illness
- #german expressionism
Reviews
Werner Krauss made quite a few titles with GW Pabst, and I consider this to be one of their better silent efforts together. He is the happily married "Fellman" who suddenly, and inexplicably, finds him self desirous of killing his wife (Ruth Weyher) with a knife. Now it has to be said that she could certainly be doing with an haircut, but anything else might be a tad too severe... Terrified by his