G.W. Pabst's silent film shows a chemist's obsessive fear of knives cured through psychoanalysis, made with Freud's followers. Werner Krauss is intense in a dreamlike and pioneering, if schematic, exploration of the mind.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (968 votes)
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