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A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.

A student murders a loan shark and her sister after writing about exceptional people's right to commit crimes. He meets prostitute Sonja while on the run, clashes with his sister's fiancé, and learns of Sonja's connection.

By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, who seeks to convince him that it is better to sacrifice ones own life than take the life of ones enemy. The framing story, taken from a novel, is believed to have been intended to give the Biblical story an anti-Bolshevist propaganda function. In any case, it was added without the knowledge of the actors in the Passion story, who included some of the major stars of the period Asta Nielsen as Mary Magdalene, Henny Porten as Mary, Grigori Chmara as Jesus, and Werner Krauss as Pontius Pilate -bampfa.berkeley.edu

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Follows a man who has lost his way: the philandering servant, Nikita, conspires to kill his boss, marries the man's wife and then sleeps with his own stepdaughter. And he's just getting started.