Alraune

March. 02,1930      
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

Brigitte Helm as  Alraune ten Brinken
Albert Bassermann as  Professor ten Brinken
Harald Paulsen as  Frank Braun
Agnes Straub as  Fürstin Wolkonski
Bernhard Goetzke as  Dr. Petersen
Martin Kosleck as  Wolfgang Petersen
Käthe Haack as  Frau Raspe
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi as  Raspe
Liselotte Schaak as  Olga Wolkonski
Paul Westermeier as  von Walter

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