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Alraune (1930 film)

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veteran actors, is excellent as the scientist whose efforts to emulate the wonder-workers of the ancient days bring so much trouble upon nearly all involved in the affair, regardless of their innocence or guilt. The support is first class… Although this picture was made almost four years ago, the sound reproduction and photography are clear. The direction is competent." "Magnus." of
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dismissed the film as being "very low level and involves ghastly ideas by Hanns Heinz Ewers, the picture is bad and silly." Magnus. Felt that actors Agnes Straub and Alebrt Bassermann were "not well handled in this instance" and that director Oswald "is so inferior in his direction that good actors
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described the film in 1934 as a "highly interesting production… Brigitte Helm, the versatile German actress, is the centre of the story… Her work is up to the high standard she has established in several foreign language pictures that have reached New York. Albert Bassermann, one of Germany's best
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A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive
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sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and avenges herself against the professor.
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in the role of Alraune. This version aimed for greater realism but is still based upon the
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was first shown in Germany at the Gloria-Palast theatre on 2 December 1930.
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Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
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Richard Oswald
Alraune
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Brigitte Helm
Albert Bassermann
Harald Paulsen
Günther Krampf
Bronislau Kaper
science fiction
horror film
Richard Oswald
1928 version
Brigitte Helm
original German myth
Brigitte Helm
Albert Bassermann
Harald Paulsen
Adolf E. Licho
Agnes Straub
Bernhard Goetzke
Martin Kosleck
Käthe Haack
Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Liselotte Schaak
Paul Westermeier
Henry Bender
Elsa Bassermann
Wilhelm Bendow
The New York Times

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