| Release Date: | Feb 1929 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Horror |
| Runtime: | 91 min |
| Cast: | Fritz Alberti (Graf Schwarzenberg), Agnes Esterhazy (Comtesse Margit, seine Tochter) Ferdinand von Alten (Baron Waldis-Schwarzenberg, Margits...) Conrad Veidt (Balduin, ein Student) Elizza La Porta (Liduschka, Blumenmädchen) Werner Krauss (Scapinelli, Wucherer) Erich Kober (Student) Max Maximilian (Student) Adolf Peter Hoffmann () Marian Alma ((uncredited)) Sylvia Torf ((uncredited)) |
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...