The Student of Prague

The Student of Prague (1926)

Der Student von Prag

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...

Date of release
1926-10-19
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (27)
Runtime
2h 13m
Genres
Horror, Drama
Director
Henrik Galeen

Casting

Interesting facts

The Student of Prague is a 1926 German Expressionist silent film by actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen.

Production

It is considered as Galeen's most important film since The Golem (1915) and is regarded as his magnum opus.

The film's screenplay was written by Galeen and Hanns Heinz Ewers and was influenced by the story of Faust. The film had previously been made as The Student of Prague.

It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. Among the crew was designer Hermann Warm; cinematographer Günther Krampf; and the actors Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Dagny Servaes, Leni Riefenstahl and Elizza La Porta. Der Student von Prag made La Porta a well-known actress.

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