Alraune (1918 film)

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Alraune
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Edmund Fritz
Written by Hanns Heinz Ewers(novel)
Richárd Falk
Starring Géza Erdélyi
Gyula Gál
Release date(s) 1918
Running time 80 mins
Country Hungary
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Alraune is a 1918 science fiction horror film directed by Michael Curtiz and Edmund Fritz. 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.

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

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