The Student of Prague

2h 13m
HorrorDrama
6.6

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...

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
Unknown
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Unknown
Sylvia Torff
Unknown

Crew

Henrik Galeen
Director, Writer
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Writer
Erich Nitzschmann
Director of Photography
Günther Krampf
Director of Photography
Erich Kober
Assistant Director
Harry R. Sokal
Producer
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Music
Max Maximilian
Production Manager
Hermann Warm
Art Direction

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