Wahnsinn
★ 10 · 1919 · 70m · Horror · Drama
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
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