The Student of Prague1926

Name: The Student of Prague
Genre: Gothic, Supernatural, Psychological, Classic Monsters
Released: 1926-10-19
Rating: 6.7

Directed by Henrik Galeen

6.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 6.9TMDB 6.6

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Year

1926

Runtime

133 min

The premise

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...

Horror Vault's take

In the shadowy streets of Prague, a restless student strikes a devil's bargain with a sinister moneylender, trading something far more precious than gold for wealth and a chance at love. Conrad Veidt delivers a haunting dual performance that anchors this landmark of German Expressionist cinema, where the line between man and his own dark reflection grows terrifyingly thin. Dread seeps through every fog-laden frame as Balduin discovers that the price of his new fortune may be nothing less than his soul. This silent-era chiller remains one of the earliest explorations of the doppelgänger in horror film history.

Content: Dueling Violence, Themes Of Self-Destruction