The Man Who Cheated Life (The Student of Prague)
- Original title
- Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) (The Man Who Cheated Life)aka
- AKA
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- The Man Who Cheated Life
- Year
- 1926
- Running time
- 134 min.
- Country
Germany
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Henrik Galeen. Novel: Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Cast
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- Fritz Alberti
- Agnes Esterhazy
- Ferdinand von Alten
- Conrad Veidt
- Elizza La Porta
- Werner Krauss
- Erich Kober
- Max Maximilian
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- Music
Restored version: Willy Schmidt-Gentner (Silent Movie)- Cinematography
Günther Krampf, Erich Nitzschmann (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Horror. Fantasy | Silent Film. German Expressionism. Remake
- Synopsis
- 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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