Alraune
Alraune
Release: 1930-03-02
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 5.2
Science Fiction
Horror
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.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Richard Oswald Produktion
Cast
Agnes Straub
as Fürstin Wolkonski
Martin Kosleck
as Wolfgang Petersen
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Raspe
Liselotte Schaak
as Olga Wolkonski
Paul Westermeier
as von Walter
Brigitte Helm
as Alraune ten Brinken
Albert Bassermann
as Professor ten Brinken
Harald Paulsen
as Frank Braun
Adolf E. Licho
as Attorney
Bernhard Goetzke
as Dr. Petersen
Käthe Haack
as Frau Raspe
Wilhelm Bendow
as o. A.
