The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket

58 mins | Drama | Nov. 21, 1918

"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.

The Yellow Ticket

58 mins | Drama | Nov. 21, 1918

The Yellow Ticket
"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Projektions-AG Union (PAGU)
Original title Der gelbe Schein
Directors Paul L. Stein, Eugen Illés, Victor Janson
Writers Hans Brennert, Hanns Kräly

Cast

Pola Negri

as Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter

Harry Liedtke

as Demetri, a Medical Student

Victor Janson

as Ossip Storki

Adolf E. Licho

as Professor Stanlaus

Werner Bernhardt

as Astanow, a Student

Guido Herzfeld

as Scholem Raab

Margarete Kupfer

as Dance Hall Proprietress

Marga Lindt

as Vera