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Alraune (1930) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1930 · 103 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Richard Oswald
- Starring
- Brigitte Helm, Albert Bassermann, Martin Kosleck, Henry Bender, Käthe Haack, Bernhard Goetzke
Professor Jakob ten Brinken, fascinated by heredity, impregnates a prostitute in his lab with the semen of a hanged murderer. She bears a daughter who knows no love; he adopts her as Alraune. The girl grows up plagued by compulsive sexuality and perverse relationships, eventually learns her grotesque origins and avenges the scientist who created her.
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