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Alraune

5.2 103 mins Science Fiction   Horror   1930
Richard Oswald Produktion  
Director(s): Richard Oswald

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

Casts of Alraune

Brigitte Helm

as Alraune ten Brinken

Albert Bassermann

as Professor ten Brinken

Harald Paulsen

as Frank Braun

Adolf E. Licho

as Attorney

Agnes Straub

as Fürstin Wolkonski

Bernhard Goetzke

as Dr. Petersen

Martin Kosleck

as Wolfgang Petersen

Käthe Haack

as Frau Raspe

Liselotte Schaak

as Olga Wolkonski

Paul Westermeier

as von Walter

Henry Bender

as The Innkeeper

Wilhelm Bendow

as o. A.

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