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Alraune (German for Mandrake) is a novel by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers published in 1911. It is also the name of the female lead character. [ 1 ] The book originally featured illustrations by Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald.
- Hanns Heinz Ewers
- 1911
Apr 30, 2023 · A plant type monster with the form of a beautiful woman covered in enormous flower petals that inhabits forests. Normally they don't move around very much. They're always releasing sweet fragrances that attract human men, and they wait for their prey. This fragrance is released from their bodily fluids, and the fluid is called "Alraune Nectar".
Nov 25, 2018 · Paul Wegener as Prof. ten Brinken and Brigitte Helm as Alraune in the 1928 adaptation of the story. The novel was published in 1911, 12 years after a Russian scientist had successfully artificially inseminated small animals.
Overview. In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..
Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor. Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928.
Nov 27, 2018 · The films in question this time are Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne (“Alraune, the hangman’s daughter, called Red Hanne”), released in the US as Sacrifice, and Alraune, which premiered in Hungary in January 1919, and apparently never got a release outside Central Europe.
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ALRAUNE is probably the late, great German author Hanns Heinz Ewers’ masterpiece. It’s certainly the best volume of his Frank Braun trilogy, being the most focused and concise, and with a welcome surfeit of the lengthy philosophical and political digressions that characterized Braun’s exploits in THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (1910) and ...
