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A Daughter Of Destiny is a film of genre Drama directed by Henrik Galeen with Brigitte Helm
A Daughter Of Destiny (1928)
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Add to a movie listAlraune (also called Unholy Love, Mandrake, or A Daughter of Destiny) is a 1928 German silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The story is based upon the legend of Alraune and the powers of the mandrake root to impregnate women. In this version the symbiosis caused by the sexual union between the human and the root causes the girl to kill all men who fall in love with her.
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A Professor is specializing in genetics is ambitious to conduct an experiment with a woman of "low social status", by impregnating her with a mandrake. The plant is believed by legend to sprout from the semen of hanged prisoners. He instructs his young nephew, Franz, to obtain a woman from the "scum of society". Franz reluctantly retrieves a prostitute, and the experiment is performed on her.Actors
Brigitte Helm
(Alraune ten Brinken)
Paul Wegener
(Professor ten Brinken)
Iván Petrovich
(Franz Braun)
Georg John
(Murderer (uncredited))
Wolfgang Zilzer
(Wölfchen)
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