Alraune | |
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Directed by | Henrik Galeen |
Screenplay by | Henrik Galeen[1] |
Based on | Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers[1] |
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Cinematography | Franz Planer[1] |
Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner[1] |
Production company | Ama-Film GmbH[1] |
Distributed by | Ama-Film GmbH[1] |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | Germany[1] |
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Alraune is a 1928 German silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The story is based upon the legend of Alraune. In this version, the blasphemous sexual union causes the progeny (a daughter) to grow to adulthood quickly, behave in a sexually promiscuous fashion and cause the men who fall in love with her nothing but hardship, heartache and financial ruin, if not death.