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The Yellow Ticket

56 %|Nov 21, 1918|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.

Featured Crew

Victor Janson
Director
Eugen Illés
Director
Kurt Richter
Art Direction
Paul L. Stein
Director
Paul Davidson
Producer
Hans Brennert
Writer
Eugen Illés
Director of Photography
Hanns Kräly
Writer

Cast

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Pola Negri
Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter
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Harry Liedtke
Demetri, a Medical Student
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Victor Janson
Ossip Storki
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Adolf E. Licho
Professor Stanlaus
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Werner Bernhardt
Astanow, a Student
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Guido Herzfeld
Scholem Raab
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Margarete Kupfer
Dance Hall Proprietress