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Geheimnisse einer Seele (released in the U.S. as "Secrets of a Soul"), the 1926 G.W. Pabst (his fourth movie!) German silent German Expressionism dream sequence mystery psychoanalysis psychiatry melodrama starring Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Gruning, Jack Trevor, and Pavel Pawlow. Note that the screenwriters and director Pabst must have been very taken with Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams", and the entire relatively recent science of psychiatry, because this movie goes with a man who accidentally cuts his wife's neck while giving her a haircut, and he becomes obsessed that he will kill her with a knife, and he both develops a morbid fear of knives of all sort, and he also starts having dreams related to knives and killing! He goes to a psychiatrist who (after many sessions) discovers that he had a childhood trauma with a female cousin that involved a knife, and that this lay dormant in him until a knife murder in the next apartment brought it all to the surface and started his dreams and his obsession. Once the psychiatrist explains it to him, he is cured! Note that the movie has many unusual dream sequences, presented in a surreal way, typical of German Expressionism of the time (and surely seen by later filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Fellini.)

Important Added Info: Note that this wonderful "country of origin" lobby card for this German movie depicts a really cool dream sequence where Krauss is in a laboratory and threatening a ghostly woman with a sword! Also note that this German lobby card measures 9" x 11 3/4" [23 x 30 cm].

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