Der Gelbe Schien (1918)
Lit: The Yellow Ticket
English Title: The Devil's Pawn
Germany/Silent/B&W
Directed by:
Eugen Illés, Victor Janson, &
Paul L. Stein
Cinematography by:
Eugen Illés
Written by:
Hans Brennert & Hanns Kräly
Cast:
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
Lea is a Jewish girl who wants to go to St. Petersburg to help her ailing foster father. She's learning to be wise and independent, but she is warned by her teacher that because she is Jewish she will not be given the usual work/travel permits, and if she wants to travel she will have to be given a special paper, a "yellow ticket" -- but those permits are usually only given to a "certain kind of woman". When Lea is rejected by the University she knows that finally she will have to swallow her pride and ask for a yellow ticket even though it's a free pass to decadence.
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