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...
Directed byHenrik Galeen
Written byHanns Heinz Ewers (novel), Henrik Galeen (book)
CountryGermany
Runtime110 min
On screen
Conrad Veidt
Elizza La Porta
Fritz Alberti
Agnes Esterhazy