Alraune (1918 film)

Alraune
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Edmund Fritz
Written by Hanns Heinz Ewers (novel)
Richárd Falk
Starring Géza Erdélyi
Gyula Gál
Release date
1918 (1918)
Running time
80 minutes
Country Hungary
Language Silent
Hungarian intertitles

Alraune is a 1918 Hungarian science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz and starring Géza Erdélyi. Little is known about this film which is now believed to be lost. It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a mandrake root.

Cast

  • Géza Erdélyi
  • Gyula Gál as Alraune
  • Kálmán Körmendy
  • Margit Lux
  • Rózsi Szöllösi
  • Jenő Törzs

See also

References

  • Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
  • Alraune on IMDb


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