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1928
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…
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Hollywood has accustomed us to promising concepts being wasted on mediocre films. This thing, however, used to happen before with cinema industries and traditions and with people who were supposed to know better. One such example could be found with *Alraune*, 1928 German silent science fiction film written and directed by Henrik Galeen, also known by its English language title *A Daughter of Destiny*. The film is b…More
