The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket

1918 · 58 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama

"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.

Directed by Victor Janson · Written by Hans Brennert

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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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