Alraune

Alraune — Plot

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

• Release date
• March 2, 1930
• Runtime
• 103 min
• Genres
• Science Fiction, Horror
• Director
• Richard Oswald

Alraune — Cast

Brigitte Helm Alraune ten Brinken Albert Bassermann Professor ten Brinken Harald Paulsen Frank Braun Adolf E. Licho Attorney Agnes Straub Fürstin Wolkonski Bernhard Goetzke Dr. Petersen Martin Kosleck Wolfgang Petersen Käthe Haack Frau Raspe