--- title: 'Alraune (1928)' type: 'film' director: 'Henrik Galeen' released: '1928-01-25' runtime_minutes: 108 genres: - 'Horror' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/alraune-1928' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017621/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Alraune (1928) 1928 · 108 min · Horror, Science Fiction · Germany ## Synopsis 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 this version, the blasphemous sexual union causes the progeny to grow to adulthood quickly, behave in a sexually promiscuous fashion and cause the men who fall in love with her nothing but hardship, heartache and financial ruin, if not death. ## Credits - **Director:** [Henrik Galeen](https://cinepixo.com/people/henrik-galeen) - **Screenplay:** [Henrik Galeen](https://cinepixo.com/people/henrik-galeen) - **Original Music Composer:** [Willy Schmidt-Gentner](https://cinepixo.com/people/willy-schmidt-gentner) - **Producer:** [Helmuth Schreiber](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmuth-schreiber) - **Director of Photography:** [Franz Planer](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-planer) ## Cast - [Wolfgang Zilzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-zilzer) - [Iván Petrovich](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-petrovich) - [Heinrich Schroth](https://cinepixo.com/people/heinrich-schroth) - [John Loder](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-loder) - [Brigitte Helm](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-helm) - [Valeska Gert](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeska-gert) - [Georg John](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-john) - [Paul Wegener](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-wegener) - [Louis Ralph](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-ralph) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/alraune-1928 Film facts: Wikidata (Q450977); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.