The Student of Prague (1926)

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Released:
1926-10-19

Overview:
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...

Director:
Henrik Galeen

Runtime:
2h 13min

Genre:
Horror, Drama

  • Cast:
  • Conrad Veidt
    as
    Balduin, Student
  • Elizza La Porta
    as
    Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen
  • Fritz Alberti
    as
    Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg
  • Agnes Esterhazy
    as
    Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter
  • Ferdinand von Alten
    as
    Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter