The Yellow Ticket
movie
View on VideBits →"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.
Cast & crew
Eugen Illés · Harry Liedtke · Victor Janson · Guido Herzfeld · Adolf E. Licho · Hanns Kräly · Hans Brennert · Marga Lindt · Paul L. Stein · Werner Bernhardt · Margarete Kupfer · Pola Negri