The Student of Prague (1926)

6.6/10 • 133 min • Horror Drama

Overview

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

Cast

Conrad Veidt

Balduin, Student

Elizza La Porta

Lyduschka, Blumenmädchen

Fritz Alberti

Reichsgraf von Schwarzenberg

Agnes Esterhazy

Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter

Ferdinand von Alten

Freiherr von Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Verlobter

Werner Krauss

Scapinelli, Wucherer

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