In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
邪恶教授Jacob ten Brinken(埃里克·冯·施特罗海姆 饰)通过结合妓女与杀人犯的基因创造出了没有道德观、天性放荡的人造人美女Alraune(海蒂嘉德·纳福 饰),某天夜晚,教授的侄子Frank Braun(卡尔海因茨·伯姆 饰)偶然遇到了Alraune,两人对彼此一见钟情并准备私奔,为阻止二人,ten Brinken教授将人造人实验的事情告诉了Frank,被吓到的Frank独自一人前往巴黎。失去Frank后,Alraune的性情变得越来越轻佻邪恶,她一方面设计陷害自己的情敌和家庭教师,另一方面在四个男人之间周旋:Frank的两个朋友Wolfie和Gerold、她的仆人Mathieu以及教授的雇员Mohn医生,就在她将一个又一个人送向死亡与毁灭的深渊时,Frank突然回来了。
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.
"Paracelsus," which was shown at the First Avenue Screening Room last Sunday and will be repeated there at noon and midnight today and tomorrow, is a very special footnote to film and political history. Never before released in New York, it is the second film made by the great, supposedly left-wing German director, G. W. Pabst, after he returned to Nazi Germany just in time for...