Die Bestie im Menschen

Directed by Ludwig Wolff

With Ossip Runitsch, Maria Orska, Ilka Grüning, Lucie Höflich and Eduard von Winterstein

Jacques Lantier, the "human beast" of the title, has a hereditary madness and has several times in his life wanted to murder women. At the beginning of the story he is an engine driver, in control of his engine "La Lison". His relationship with "La Lison" is almost sexual and provides some degree of control over his mania.