Alraune (1918 film)

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Alraune
Alraune 1918.jpg
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Edmund Fritz
Written byHanns Heinz Ewers (novel)
Starring
Gyula Gál
Release date
1918 (1918)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryHungary
LanguagesSilent
Hungarian intertitles

Alraune is a 1918 Hungarian science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz and starring . Little is known about this film which is now believed to be lost. It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a mandrake root.

Cast[]

  • Gyula Gál ... Professor Brinken
  • ... Alraune
  • ... Frank Braun
  • Böske Malatinszky ... Alma Raune, mother of Alraune
  • ... Farkas Gontran
  • Andor Kardos ... Sebestyén Gontran, legal adviser
  • András Kruppka ... Instructor Petersen (as Andor K. Kovács)
  • Károly Árnyai ... Manesse attorney
  • Violetta Szlatényi[1]
  • Jenő Törzs
  • Viktor Daniel
  • Boleszlav Szobierszki

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ IMDb: Violette Szlatenyl.
  • Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
  • Alraune at IMDb

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