The Yellow Ticket (1918)

The Yellow Ticket

1918

Drama

Synopsis

"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.

Credits

Director

Eugen Illés

Paul L. Stein

Victor Janson

Cast

Adolf E. Licho as Professor Stanlaus

Guido Herzfeld as Scholem Raab

Harry Liedtke as Demetri, a Medical Student

Marga Lindt as Vera

Margarete Kupfer as Dance Hall Proprietress

Pola Negri as Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter