The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent horror film directed by Aleksandr Razumny and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster, and Henri de Vries.
[2] The film's sets were designed by art director Franz Schroedter.
Tomski, a Russian soldier, mentions to the other soldiers playing cards with him that, years before, his grandmother, the Countess Tomski, told him that an old sorcerer had bestowed upon her a supernatural secret to winning at cards.
Another soldier named Hermann later manages to sneak into the Countess' house and tries to wrest the secret from her.
The old woman dies of fright, and later her ghost returns to haunt Hermann, driving him insane.