Alraune

Alraune

103 mins | Science Fiction | March 2, 1930

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.

Alraune

103 mins | Science Fiction | March 2, 1930

Alraune
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Richard Oswald Produktion
Original title Alraune
Directors Richard Oswald
Writers Richard Weisbach, Charlie Roellinghoff, Hanns Heinz Ewers

Cast

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.