The Student of Prague
1926
Directed by Henrik Galeen
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Intensity
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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- Director
- Henrik Galeen
- Written by
- Hanns Heinz Ewers, Henrik Galeen
- Produced by
- Harry R. Sokal
- Cinematographers
- Erich Nitzschmann, Günther Krampf
- Studio
- Sokal-Film GmbH
- Origin country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Language
- de
- Rating
- NR
- Also known as
- The Man Who Cheated Life
- TMDB
- 6.6/10 (27 votes)
- IMDb
- 6.9/10 (754 votes)
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
Werner Krauss
Scapinelli, Wucherer
Erich Kober
1. Student
Max Maximilian
2. Student
Marian Alma
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Sylvia Torff
