Victor Sjöström’s masterpiece is a profound meditation on redemption and mortality. Famous for its intricate narrative structure using flashbacks within flashbacks, it pushed storytelling complexity to new heights. The groundbreaking double-exposure effects created a spectral world that felt genuinely ghostly yet grounded in emotional reality. Deeply influencing Ingmar Bergman, this film showed that cinema could address the soul's deepest burdens. It remains a technical marvel and a spiritual landmark, turning a ghost story into a humanist plea.