The Man Who Cheated Life (The Student of Prague) (1926)

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the man who cheated life (the student of prague)

ORIGINAL TITLE

Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) (The Man Who Cheated Life)

YEAR

1926

RUNNING TIME

88 min.

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COUNTRY

DIRECTOR

Henrik Galeen

SCREENWRITER

Henrik Galeen, Hanns Heinz Ewers

COMPOSER

Silent movie / Restored version: Willy Schmidt-Gentner

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Günther Krampf, Erich Nitzschmann (B&N)

CAST

Fritz Alberti, Agnes Esterhazy, Ferdinand von Alten, Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Werner Krauss, Erich Kober, Max Maximilian

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Sokal-Film GmbH

GENRE

Drama. Horror | Silent Film. German Expressionism. Remake

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

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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