Der Student von Prag (1926)

Director:

Henrik Galeen

Writers:

Hanns Heinz Ewers (novel)
Henrik Galeen (book)

Release Date:

20 March 1927 (Finland)

Genre:

Drama | Horror

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Based On Novel

Cast

Fritz Alberti	...	Graf Schwarzenberg
Agnes Esterhazy	...	Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter
Ferdinand von Alten	...	Baron Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits Vetter und Verlobter
Conrad Veidt	...	Balduin, ein Student
Elizza La Porta	...	Liduschka, Blumenmädchen (as Elizza la Porta)
Werner Krauss	...	Scapinelli, Wucherer
Erich Kober	...	Student
Max Maximilian	...	Student
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adolf Peter Hoffmann

Also Known As:

The Man Who Cheated Life (USA)
The Student of Prague (UK)

Runtime:

91 min (DVD) | 110 min (20 fps)

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Sokal-Film GmbH

Movie Connections:

Remake of Der Student von Prag (1913)

Decent Remake

Student of Prague, The (1926)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

German horror/drama is a remake of the 1914 version, which was the first German horror film. A poor college student (Conrad Veidt) falls in love with a rich girl but knows he'll never get her due to his poorness. Then enters Scapinelli (Werner Krauss), a strange man who offers the student 600,000 gold pieces in return for something from the students room. The student agrees but is shocked when the man takes his soul. Outside the good performances by Veidt and Krauss, this film really doesn't add too much that the 1914 film didn't do better. This film here runs fifty-minutes longer but the tiresome pace doesn't help matters and even the special effects were better done in the previous version.