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Auction History Result 2y420 SECRETS OF A SOUL German LC #7 '26 G.W. Pabst, Krauss in dream sequence entering city! Date Sold 11/6/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical German Movie Lobby Card #7 (LC; measures 9" x 11 3/4" [23 x 30 cm]) (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 lobby card depicts one of the wonderful dream sequences described above! Note that this is a "country of origin" lobby card for this German movie! Note that first release German material of any kind from this early G.W. Pabst movie is incredibly rare. We have previously auctioned a German program, and now we are auctioning three German lobby cards (in three separate auctions), but otherwise, we have never seen any movie paper of any kind from this movie! Also note that this German lobby card measures 9" x 11 3/4" [23 x 30 cm]. Condition: very good. There are scuff marks in the upper left blank border, and some faint creases scattered in the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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