Prahan ylioppilas

Original title: Der Student von Prag

19261926
1h 50m

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Conrad Veidt in Prahan ylioppilas (1926)

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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. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless... Read allFor 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 though... Read allFor 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... Read all

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Director
- Henrik Galeen
Writers
- Hanns Heinz Ewers(novel of the same name)
- Henrik Galeen(book)
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Elizza La Porta and Conrad Veidt in Prahan ylioppilas (1926)

Ágnes Eszterházy, Werner Krauss, and Conrad Veidt in Prahan ylioppilas (1926)

Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt in Prahan ylioppilas (1926)

Werner Krauss in Prahan ylioppilas (1926)

Trivia
Elizza La Porta's debut.

Alternate versions
Version restored in 1999 for the Munich Film Archive based on a copy with Spanish intertitles from the Archivo Nacional de la Imagen y la Palabra - Sodre in Montevideo that was secured by L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, and a German copy secured by Gosfilmofond, Moskow. The version has been re-tinted, with the tinting only partially matching that of the Spanish copy. Music by Stephen Horne, sound Orpheus Studio, London. Runtime 2 hours 13 minutes.

Connections
Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Le contrôle de l'univers (1999)

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7/10

The Student Of Prague (1926) ***

This is a more elaborate, lavish and altogether satisfactory version of the above, with Conrad Veidt perfectly cast in the lead and with Werner Krauss also making for a menacing Scapinelli. The expressionistic elements are well in evidence here (director Henrik Galeen had written Murnau's NOSFERATU [1922] and, stylistically, the film does bear some resemblance to it): while not quite reaching the heights of, say, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) and NOSFERATU itself, it's very much deserving of the reputation it enjoys in the horror film genre and, despite the shoddy print quality of the Alpha DVD, replete with missing frames (where are Kino when you need them?), I'm truly glad I was given an opportunity to watch this elusive classic from the Silent era after having read so much about it since childhood! Let's hope now that another highly-regarded (and much-filmed) Conrad Veidt vehicle, THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1925), also gets a DVD release soon...

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