The Yellow Ticket

(1918)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1918

Runtime: 58 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Victor Janson, Eugen Illés, Paul L. Stein

Cast: Пола Негри, Harry Liedtke, Victor Janson, Adolf E. Licho, Werner Bernhardt, Guido Herzfeld, Margarete Kupfer, Marga Lindt

Plot

"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.