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Auction History Result 3a275 SECRETS OF A SOUL German program '26 psychological German Expressionism, G.W. Pabst directed Date Sold 8/12/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) 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 is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! Also note that German programs from the early 1920s are INCREDIBLY scarce, especially from major movies. This is almost certainly because of the great paper shortages in Germany during World War II, during which all earlier paper was recycled, which means virtually no pre-World War II German paper survives. Also note that we have pictured the front cover, and two interior 2-page spreads from this program. Condition: very good. The program is printed on a newsprint like paper and it is fragile around the edges with a few small tears, but otherwise, it is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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