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The Student of Prague

1926
133 min Germany Feature
Directed by
Henrik Galeen
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Synopsis

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

Key facts

Original language German
Setting Prague

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Festival History

Titles
Alternate title The Man Who Cheated Life
Alternate title The Student of Prague
Alternate title L'Étudiant de Prague
Identifiers & sources
Wikidata Q771217
IMDb tt0017438
TMDB 27519
CQ 58636

Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)

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