Horror ·Drama · Germany · 1926 · 2h 13m

The Student of Prague

Der Student von Prag

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Director
Henrik Galeen
Cast
Conrad Veidt as Balduin, Student Elizza La Porta as Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen Fritz Alberti as Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg Agnes Esterhazy as Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter Ferdinand von Alten as Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter Werner Krauss as Scapinelli, Wucherer
Crew
Erich Nitzschmann — Director of Photography Günther Krampf — Director of Photography Hanns Heinz Ewers — Writer Henrik Galeen — Writer Harry R. Sokal — Producer
Synopsis

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

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Key Collaborators
Henrik Galeen Director Erich Nitzschmann Director of Photography Günther Krampf Director of Photography Hanns Heinz Ewers Writer Henrik Galeen Writer Harry R. Sokal Producer
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