电影发生在中世纪的纽伦堡。工匠彼得·亨莱因受全城的尊敬，并娶了年轻的、充满活力的伊芙为妻。但是发明创造第一枚怀表（纽伦堡蛋）的工作使他的生活不得安宁。他日以继夜地工作，沉迷于机械，完全忘记了他的妻子和周遭的世界。他妻子拼命想要修复婚姻关系，但无济于事。 彼得·亨莱因终于成功地发明了怀表，但也付出了很高的代价。完成工作以后，他意识到他的妻子和他生命中的一切，都付诸东流。 （豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

Paul Wegener, in his first talkie film, plays an evil inventor who is pursued by investigative journalist (Harald Paulsen) through three famous horror tales. The first is based on Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Black Cat'. Wegener kills his wife and hides her behind a wall in his basement. The reporter, who hears the wife's screams as he is passing by, calls in the police days later after she is reported missing. The journalist and the police eventually find her body thanks to her meowing cat, which was also accidentally walled with the body.
The inventor escapes, only to hide in a wax museum (spoofing Paul Leni's 'Waxworks'), where a sinister game of cat and mouse develops. The chase soon moves to an asylum (taken from another Poe story, 'The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether') and later, to a strange gentlemen's club which runs a sinister suicide game (from Robert Lewis Stevenson's 'The Suicide Club').
This is a remake of the director's own 'Eerie Tales' (1919), which also included adaptations of 'The Black Cat' and 'The Suicide Club'. All three stories here have been filmed since as well - 'Tales of Terror' (1962), 'Curse of the Stone Hand' (1964) and 'Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon' (1973) stand out as examples – so this may all feel quite familiar. Despite this, it's still very entertaining.

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.

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