Alraune (1928) 6/10

Directed by Henrik Galeen

Brigette Helm - Alraune ten Brinken

Paul Wegener - Professor Jakob ten Brinken

Following the tradition of Frankenstein Alraune is the story of a girl -- the fruit of a sordid experiment... created by a scientist, who inseminated a prostitute with the 'seed' of a hanged criminal. Proferssor Brinken is interested in whether it is our genes or our enviroment which governs our personalities -- he adopts Alraune as his own and sends her to a convent school. Sure she will be safe from any wicked influence, he observes her maturation... what will the results of his experiment be?

In the middle ages, the mandrake root (alraune, in German) was said to grow where the semen of hanged men fell when they were killed. Galeen's film is considered the difinitive version of Hanns Heinz Ewers' novel, a modern retelling of this tale (itself written in 1911).

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• metropolis

[SilentFilmCollection]

@fjdmusicman she's doing more tricks that the circus magician!!!

[fjdmusicman]

Mandrake has, had so many boy friends I am losing track of who's who !

[fjdmusicman]

yup, the prof. has a rockit in his pocket and his creation is making it fly, I do believe they both must die in the end......

[GryffenPuff]

aha, knew it. Now Prof ten Brinken likes her too. This is only going to end badly for him.

[piink902]

cool