The Yellow Ticket (1918)

"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.

Released Nov. 21, 1918 58 min None+

Genres: Drama, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.prejudice, imdb.pretending-to-be-a-prostitute, imdb.school, aspectratio.1-33-1

Production Companies: Projektions-AG Union

Country: Germany
Languages: German