Wandering Souls (1921)

Original title

Irrende Seelen

Directed by

Carl Froelich

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Weimar Republic, Germany

Runtime

2h 03m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman and two men are caught in a painful love triangle. The story follows their emotional struggles and moral conflicts in early 20th century Germany.

melancholicintimateslow-burnemotionally heavyatmosphericcerebraltragicrestrained

What happens

Wandering Souls (German: Irrende Seelen) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, and Walter Janssen. It was based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1869 novel The Idiot. The film was the first of three to be made by Russo Film, a small production company set up by Decla-Bioscop to make literary adaptations. The 123-minute film was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. It premiered on 3 March 1921 at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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