doesn’t quite have the impact and dramatic cohesion of some of Pabst’s later films, it has a great deal to commend it. There’s Helm’s commanding performance of a woman visibly tortured by her ferocious sexual urge, a set piece scene in a night club which conveys the decadence and moral decay of German society in the late 1920s, and some exquisitely beautiful photography which is subtly influenced by the expressionistic style. That the film is far less well known than Pabst’s other work is … Robert Moog developed voltage controlled oscillators and envelope generators while there, and these were later used as the heart of the Moog synthesizer.