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Alraune, later renamed Unnatural: The Fruit of Evil, [2] is a 1952 black and white West German science fiction film, directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim. [3] The film is based on the 1911 novel Alraune by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers. [2]
Alraune: Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt. With Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Trude Hesterberg, Denise Vernac. A scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her.
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- Horror, Sci-Fi
- Arthur Maria Rabenalt
- 1957-02
Alraune is a 1928 German silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The story is based upon the legend of Alraune.
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..
Medical student Frank Braun [Carlheinz Böhm] arrives at the estate of his uncle, Professor Jacob ten Brinken [Erich von Stroheim], to ask for money so that he can continue his studies. His uncle is not home, but Frank is surprised to see a beautiful young girl seated on the railing of a second story porch at the top of a trellis.
Alraune (also known as Unnatural) is a 1952 West German science fiction horror film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef in which a scientist creates a woman who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality.
Hildegard Knef plays the eponymous Alraune, a femme fatale in the truest sense, luring men to their untimely deaths; beautiful, alluring, but heartless. The source material is adapted for the times - Alraune is the product of artificial insemination, and as such should be viewed as being against nature; she…
