The Yellow Ticket

Release Date: 1918-11-21

Overview: "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.

Rating: 5.6 / 10

Cast

Pola Negri

as Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter

Harry Liedtke

as Demetri, a Medical Student

Victor Janson

as Ossip Storki

Adolf E. Licho

as Professor Stanlaus

Werner Bernhardt

as Astanow, a Student