Alraune (1952 film)
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| Directed by | Arthur Maria Rabenalt |
| Produced by | Günther Stapenhorst |
| Screenplay by | Kurt Heuser |
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| Music by | Werner Richard Heymann |
| Cinematography | Friedl Behn-Grund |
| Edited by | Doris Zeltmann |
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| Distributed by | Gloria-Filmverleih GmbH |
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92 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
Alraune is a 1952 West German science fiction directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring Hildegard Knef. The film involves a scientist (Erich von Stroheim), who creates a woman who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality.
Alraune was released in Germany on 23 October 1952 where it was distributed by Gloria-Filmverleih. It was released in the USA in 1957 by Distributors Corporation of America, with English dubbed, as Unnatural - The Fruit Of Evil.
In a contemporary review, Variety noted that "in the early 1900s, when the H. H. Ewers novel Alraune cut a swatch in the German-language world [...] the very thought of artificial insemination of humans was mentionable only in whispers." and that "times and sensations change." The review opined that Knef's acting had "limited range" and that von Stroheim produces "only a laboured setting for a range of costumes changes and phony thunderstorms for the lethal Alraune".
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