The Student of Prague

Name: The Student of Prague
Director: Henrik Galeen
Genre: Horror, Drama
Released: 1926-10-19
Duration: 133 min
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Agnes Esterhazy, Ferdinand von Alten

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1926 · 133 min · NR · Horror · Drama · TMDB 6.6/10

Overview

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...

Directed by Henrik Galeen

Cast

Conrad Veidt — Balduin, Student
Elizza La Porta — Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen
Fritz Alberti — Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg
Agnes Esterhazy — Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter
Ferdinand von Alten — Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter