Alraune

Overview

Cast & Crew

Production House

The Plot

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.

Run Time

1h 43m

Genre

Science Fiction, Horror

Release Date

02 Mar 1930

Country

Germany

Language

German

Director & Producers

Richard Oswald
Director

Erich Pommer
Producer

Top Billed Cast

Brigitte Helm
Alraune ten Brinken

Albert Bassermann
Professor ten Brinken

Harald Paulsen
Frank Braun

Adolf E. Licho
Attorney

Agnes Straub
Fürstin Wolkonski

Bernhard Goetzke
Dr. Petersen

Martin Kosleck
Wolfgang Petersen

Käthe Haack
Frau Raspe

Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Raspe

Liselotte Schaak
Olga Wolkonski

Paul Westermeier
von Walter Henry Bender
The Innkeeper

Technical Team

Hanns Heinz Ewers
Novel Charlie Roellinghoff
Screenplay Richard Weisbach
Screenplay

Bronislau Kaper
Original Music Composer Günther Krampf
Director of Photography Felix Günther
Music Director Erich Leistner
Sound

Richard Oswald Produktion

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