The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket — Plot

"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.

• Release date
• November 21, 1918
• Runtime
• 58 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Victor Janson

The Yellow Ticket — Cast

Pola Negri Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter Harry Liedtke Demetri, a Medical Student Victor Janson Ossip Storki Adolf E. Licho Professor Stanlaus

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Werner Bernhardt Astanow, a Student

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Guido Herzfeld Scholem Raab Margarete Kupfer Dance Hall Proprietress

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Marga Lindt Vera