Secrets of a Soul
1926 · 75 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 844 VOTES · DIR. G.W. Pabst
Overview
Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who 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 (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Guido Seeber in a brilliant mix of expressionism and surrealism), he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
Dialogue Timeline — 146 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:23 SECRET OF A SOUL a Psychoanalytic Film
00:01:45 ...the teaching of university professor Sigmund Freud...
00:07:59 "Come... Papa's expecting us!"
00:11:30 ...Sumatra lies behind me, and in a short while I shall be with you...
00:33:32 "I can't touch the knife!"
00:40:14 ...my husband has been completely distraught..."
00:42:38 "You mean Dr. Orth. He lives just across the way."
00:44:45 "I am happily married and yet... yesterday evening...
00:45:39 ...that I like to apply with such illnesses."
00:47:55 ...only when we have worked together to uncover...
00:49:44 ...in my wife's bedroom... I suddenly heard..."
00:51:04 "I grew up with my wife... Marriage to her has given...
00:55:07 "What are the characteristics of this man who has appeared to you in these fantasies?"
00:56:16 ...I was never consciously jealous of him...
00:59:37 ...rose to consciousness in the parient.
01:00:26 "The images are muddled..."
01:02:24 Sincerely Your Cousin Hans
01:04:43 "Did you recognize the women?"
01:06:08 ...for this reason you saw yourself condemned as a murderer."
01:07:40 ...signify 'imminent' or 'wished for' birth...!"
01:10:13 "In the dream I got into a furious rage..."
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed146
Dialogue density1.9 lines / min
First line00:00:23
Final line01:10:13
Production Record
DirectorG.W. Pabst
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes844