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20 March 1927 (Finland) more
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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... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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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
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Adolf Peter Hoffmann
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Also Known As:
The Man Who Cheated Life (USA)
The Student of Prague (UK)
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Runtime:
91 min (DVD) | 110 min (20 fps)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Decent Remake, 29 February 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

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.

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