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The Student of Prague is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Henrik Galeen released in USA on 25 october 1926 with Conrad Veidt
The Student of Prague (1926)
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Add to a movie listThe Student of Prague (German: Der Student von Prag) is a 1926 Expressionist silent film by actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen. The film is a remake of The Student of Prague (1913), and is considered as Galeen's most important film since The Golem (1915) and is regarded as his magnum opus. The film draws heavily from the Faust legend and could be viewed as a reworking of that story.
The film crew involved some famous names: designer Hermann Warm, ; Günther Krampf, cinematographer ; and the actors Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Dagny Servaes, Leni Riefenstahl and Elizza La Porta. Der Student von Prag made La Porta a well-known actress.
Synopsis
The film is set in the year 1820 and centers around a student at a university in Prague, Balduin. At a student-led outing to a country inn, Balduin encounters the figure Scapinelli who offers him money "for very low interest." Balduin believes him to be a loan shark and ignores him to go engage in a fencing match with another student. After the match, the viewer sees Scapinelli on a cliffside, watching a young woman (later revealed to be Margit, the daughter of a count) on horseback who is participating in a fox-hunt. He manipulates the situation such that the animals run amok and head towards the inn. Balduin sees Margit on the horse and catches her when she falls off. As a reward, he receives an invitation to her father's house, Count Schwartzenberg. There he becomes aware of his own poverty in comparison to Margit's fiance, who is a baron. Later that night, Scapinelli again comes for Balduin and makes an offer. Balduin signs a contract stipulating that Scapinelli can have anything in the room he wants in return for 600,000 florin. Balduin signs and Scapinelli takes out a small bag and proceeds to pour the entirety of the 600,000 onto the table. Scapinelli then takes his part: Balduin's reflection.Actors
Conrad Veidt
(Balduin, Student)
Fritz Alberti
(Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg)
Werner Krauss
(Scapinelli, Wucherer)
Agnes Esterhazy
(Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter)
Elizza La Porta
(Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen)
Ferdinand von Alten
(Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter)
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