Film

The Yellow Ticket

1918 · 58m · Drama

IMDb

6.3

"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.

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

• Victor JansonDirector
• Eugen IllésDirector · Director of Photography
• Paul L. SteinDirector
• Hans BrennertWriter
• Hanns KrälyWriter
• Paul DavidsonProducer

Release date

November 21, 1918

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

58m

Genres

Drama