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GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE (Secrets of a Soul) (1926) + DAS WACHSFIGURENKABINETT (Waxworks) (1924) * with English intertitles *

Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher and Ilka Grüning
$13.99
GEHEIMNISSE EINER SEELE  (1926): 
Als ein Chemiker erfährt, dass der charmante Vetter seiner schönen Frau nach langer Zeit aus Indien zurückkehrt, häufen sich bei ihm bizarre, Furcht erregende Träume. So träumt er beispielsweise, dass er versucht, seine Frau mit einem Dolch zu erstechen. Dieser Traum verfolgt ihn so sehr, dass er am nächsten Tag von einer wahren Messer-Phobie besessen ist. Seine Frau und deren Vetter beginnen indes, sich Sorgen um den Mann zu machen, dessen eigene, wahnhafte Verzweiflung in dem Versuch endet, seine Frau tatsächlich zu erstechen – gerade so, wie er es in seinem Traum vorweggenommen hat.  
When a chemist discovers, that the charming cousin of his pretty wife has returned home after being in India for a long time, he starts having more and more bizarre and frightening dreams.  He dreams, for example, that he's trying to stab his wife with a dagger.  This dream bothers him so much, that he becomes obsessed with a knife-phobia the next day.  His wife and her cousing begin to worry about her husband; especially when, in a desperate delusion he does indeed attempt to stab his wife with a dagger ... just like he dream the night before.  (74 mins; in very good quality) 

DAS WACHSFIGURENKABINETT  (1924):

Aufwändig gestalteter Episodenfilm über die Figuren eines Wachsfigurenkabinetts, die in den Erzählungen eines jungen Dichters zum Leben erwachen. Der Kalif Harun al Raschid, Iwan der Schreckliche und Jack the Ripper sind die jeweiligen Protagonisten der drei Phantasiegebilde, in denen auch der Dichter selbst sowie die von ihm verehrte Tochter des Kabinettbesitzers in verschiedenen Rollen auftauchen.

Waxworks (original title: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett) is a 1924 fantasy/horror silent film directed by Paul Leni. The film is about a writer who accepts a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad (Emil Jannings), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt) and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss) in the museum in order to boost business. Although Waxworks is often credited as a horror film, it is a anthology film that goes through various genre's including a fantasy adventure, a historical film, and a horror film through its various episodes. This film would be director Paul Leni's last film made in Germany before he went on to make The Cat and the Canary (1927) in America.  (83 mins.; in very good quality).

 

SILENT FILMS WITH ENGLISH INTERTITLES. DVD-R IS APPROX. 157 MINS.   VERY GOOD QUALITY.   REGION FREE.

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