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The Yellow Ticket is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Paul L. Stein with Pola Negri

The Yellow Ticket (1918)

The Yellow Ticket
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Length 58minutes
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OriginGerman
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.130273.130273.130273.130273.13027

Der Gelbe Schien (English titles The Yellow Ticket and The Devil's Pawn) is a 1918 German silent film starring Pola Negri in a double role as Lea and her mother Lydia, Victor Janson as Ossip Storki, and Harry Liedtke as Dimitri. It was directed by Victor Janson and Eugen Illés.

Synopsis

Pola Negri plays Lea, a bright adolescent girl who lives in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw with her ill father. She loves to read, and intends to study medicine at a university in St. Petersburg in the hopes of making her father well again. Her father dies suddenly and her tutor, Ossip Storki, is called away to work for the governor. When she goes to Russia, she learns that Jewish women are only allowed to work as sex workers with the benefit of a "yellow passport", otherwise they will be taken to prison. She applies for a yellow passport and takes up residency at a brothel. Upon finding the identification papers of her tutor's deceased sister Sophie in a book her tutor gave her, Lea applies to the University with the deceased sister's identification papers and is accepted. So begins an unhappy life of studying by day and receiving scholastic honors, while reluctantly working as a party girl at night. Her fellow students, including a boy named Dimitri who is in love with her, then find her out. Dimitri in particular is crushed to learn of Lea's double life. Lea realizes that this will be the end of her scholastic career, and attempts suicide.

Actors

Pola Negri

(Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter)Harry Liedtke

(Demetri, a Medical Student)Victor Janson

(Ossip Storki)Adolf E. Licho

(Professor Stanlaus)Margarete Kupfer

(Dance Hall Proprietress)
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