The scientist ten Brinken succeeds in artificially inseminating a prostitute with the sperm of a murderer. Thus Alraune sees the light of day - a beguiling woman of destructive insensitivity who drives all men who get too close to her to ruin until she falls in love with Frank, ten Brinken's nephew.

This remake of the 1911 novel "Alraune" by Hanns Heinz Ewers is quite impressive in its dark visual effect. Erich von Stroheim as the doctor and Hildegard Knef as the seductive title heroine make an excellent leading actor duo, alongside whom Karlheinz Böhm was able to prove himself as Frank in his first leading role.

FRG 1952, 91 min., FSK: unrated

The sixth feature film in which Hildegard Knef starred shows the destroyed Munich of 1947. After the Second World War, draughtsman Michael Roth returns from exile in Switzerland to his hometown of Munich and stays in the half-destroyed Regina Palace Hotel, where he had often stayed in the past. He finds that his former friends receive him with hostility, as his hasty escape has been linked to the theft of jewelry from the Jewish woman Nelly Dreifuss, who took her own life at the time. Roth knows that he is innocent, but rehabilitating himself is not so easy.

In order to make the hotel business as realistic as possible, the employees who had lost their jobs due to the destruction of the real hotel were hired as extras for their actual roles.

D 1947, 109 min., FSK: unrated