Alraune (1918 film)
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Alraune | |
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Directed by | Michael Curtiz Edmund Fritz |
Written by | Hanns Heinz Ewers (novel) Richárd Falk |
Starring | Géza Erdélyi Gyula Gál |
Release date | 1918 |
Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | Hungary |
Language | Silent Hungarian intertitles |
Alraune is a 1918 Hungarian science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz and starring Géza Erdélyi. Little is known about this film which is now believed to be lost. It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a mandrake root.
Cast[edit]
- Gyula Gál ... Professor Brinken
- Rózsi Szöllösi ... Alraune
- Kálmán Körmendy ... Frank Braun
- Böske Malatinszky ... Alma Raune, mother of Alraune
- Géza Erdélyi ... Farkas Gontran
- Andor Kardos ... Sebestyén Gontran, legal adviser
- András Kruppka ... Instructor Petersen (as Andor K. Kovács)
- Károly Árnyai ... Manesse attorney
- Margit Lux
- Violetta Szlatényi[1]
- Jenő Törzs
- Viktor Daniel
- Boleszlav Szobierszki
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ IMDb: Violette Szlatenyl.
- Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
- Alraune on IMDb
External links[edit]
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- Lost horror films
- Films directed by Michael Curtiz
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- Films based on German novels
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- Hungarian science fiction films
- Mad scientist films
- 1910s science fiction horror films
- Lost Hungarian films
- Hungarian horror films
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