The Yellow Ticket
"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
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"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Hans Brennert, Hanns Kräly
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Runtime:58 minutes
Studio:Projektions-AG Union
Cast
Eugen Illés, Victor Janson, Paul L. Stein
Director
Pola Negri
Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter
Harry Liedtke
Demetri, a Medical Student
Victor Janson
Ossip Storki
Adolf E. Licho
Professor Stanlaus
Werner Bernhardt
Astanow, a Student
Guido Herzfeld
Scholem Raab
Margarete Kupfer
Dance Hall Proprietress
Marga Lindt
Vera
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