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The Yellow Ticket (1918)

The Yellow Ticket poster
Original title
Der gelbe Schein
Directed by
Eugen Illés, Victor Janson, Paul L. Stein
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in Germany takes on a dangerous false identity to escape persecution. Her mother also appears in flashback as events unfold.

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What happens

The Yellow Ticket (German: Der Gelbe Schein), also known as The Devil's Pawn, is a 1918 German silent film starring Pola Negri in a double role as Lea and her mother Lydia, Victor Janson as Ossip Storki, and Harry Liedtke as Dimitri. It was directed by Victor Janson and Eugen Illés. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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