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Alraune (released in the U.S. as "A Daughter of Destiny", and released in some other English-speaking countries as "Mandrake"), the 1928 Henrik Galeen German silent science fiction (sci-fi) fantasy horror thriller (based on the novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers; about a scientist wanting to find out if a person's personality is genetic or environmental; he artificially inseminates a prostitute with the semen of a hanged man [which, in German mythology, was used to grow the "mandrake root", and in some myths it is the blood that is the source, and sometimes the root was given to a woman wanting to become pregnant, and supposedly eating it could make her pregnant, but the resulting child would grow into a soulless person], to see if the resulting child is doomed to grow up evil in spite of good upbringing; he raises the girl himself telling her he is her father, and she does in some ways become evil, and worse yet, her "father" is drawn to her, and when she rejects him, he goes insane) starring Brigitte Helm (in the title role as Alraune), Paul Wegener, Ivan Petrovich, Wolfgang Zilzer, and Louis Ralph. Note that the only existing print of this movie was constructed from fragments found in different film archives, and it is almost surely incomplete. There are differences in reviews of the movie as to exactly how the plot goes, and it may well be the result of seeing different prints, some of which may have added film. But it is very sad that this movie is completely forgotten, except by film buffs, because it combines the talents of Henrik Galeen (who directed The Golem and Nosferatu), Paul Wegener (who starred as The Golem in three different versions), and Brigitte Helm (who starred in Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" the previous year), and it is certainly a fascinating movie, using much of the Frankenstein concept, but changing the sex, and adding the incestuous love of the creator for his "creation"! This was a silent movie, and it was remade just two years later, again with Brigitte Helm in the starring role, but with mostly different actors in the other roles. Posters from either this 1928 version or the 1930 version are beyond rare!
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Important Added Info: Note that this program, which is a "country of origin" item for this German movie, is incredibly rare! Not only have we never seen it before, but we have never seen ANY other item from this 1928 version of this movie! We have only had an Austrian program and a Swedish stolpe from the 1930 sound remake, but perhaps it is because the movie was remade just two years later that the movie paper from this 1928 silent version is so incredibly rare! But if you collect on sci-fi, horror, or fantasy, then this may be your only chance for many years to find any item on this movie, and this is "country of origin"! Also note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the 8 pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are 4 pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended).

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