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| Directed by | Stellan Rye Paul Wegener |
| Written by | Alfred de Musset Hanns Heinz Ewers Edgar Allan Poe |
| Starring | Paul Wegener John Gottowt Grete Berger |
| Cinematography | Guido Seeber |
| Music by | Josef Weiss |
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| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | German Empire |
| Languages | Silent film German intertitles |
The Student of Prague (Template:Lang-de, also known as A Bargain with Satan) is a 1913 German silent horror film. The film was remade in 1926, under the same title The Student of Prague. Other remakes were produced in 1935 and 2004. It is generally deemed to be the first independent film in history.(http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/043936-000/der-student-von-prag)
Plot
A poor student rescues a beautiful countess and soon becomes obsessed with her. A sorcerer makes a deal with the young man to give him fabulous wealth and anything he wants, if he will sign his name to a contract (i.e. make a Deal with the Devil). The student hurriedly signs the contract, but doesn't know what he's in for.
A long plot summary is given by psychologist Otto Rank in The Double (1971; originally "Der Doppelgänger" in Imago III.2, 1914, 97-164).
The film is referenced in the detective story "The Image in the Mirror" by Dorothy Sayers, in which Lord Peter Wimsey helps clear Mr. Duckworthy, a man wrongly suspected of murder. Among other things Duckworthy tells:
"When I was seven or eight, my mother took me with her to see a film called "The Student of Prague".(...) It was a costume piece about a young man at the university who sold himself to the devil, and one day his reflection came stalking out of the mirror on its own, and went about committing dreadful crimes, so that everybody thought it was him."
(In the story, Mr. Duckworthy had what seemed a similar experience - but Wimsey eventually proves that it had a rational explanation involving no supernatural agency).
Cast
- Paul Wegener as Balduin
- John Gottowt as Scapinelli
- Grete Berger as Countess Margit
- Lyda Salmonova as Lyduschka
- Lothar Körner as Count von Schwarzenberg
- Fritz Weidemann as Baron Waldis-Schwarzenberg
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