The Man Who Cheated Life (The Student of Prague)
1926 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany
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 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 by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
Direction Henrik Galeen
Cast Fritz Alberti · Agnes Esterhazy · Ferdinand von Alten · Conrad Veidt · Elizza La Porta · Werner Krauss · Erich Kober · Max Maximilian
Soundtrack Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Screenplay Henrik Galeen · Hanns Heinz Ewers
Cinematography Günther Krampf · Erich Nitzschmann
Original title Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) (The Man Who Cheated Life)
Also known as The Man Who Cheated Life
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149 votes (FilmAffinity)
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