1926 · drama · silent · psychological
Secrets of a Soul
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst1h 15m1926
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.
Our read: Secrets of a Soul (1926) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · silent · psychological entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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