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Auction History Result 8k810 UNNATURAL pressbook '56 Arthur Rabenalt's Alraune, art of Erich von Stroheim & Hildegard Knef Date Sold 6/8/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1956 Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Alraune (released in the U.S. in 1956 as "Unnatural"), the 1952 Arthur Maria Rabenalt German science fiction (sci-fi) horror thriller ("Born like no one else in the world before... The fruit of evil"; "Born outside the laws of God and man!"; "...the fruit of evil"; 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 Hildegard Knef (billed as "Hildegarde Neff"; in the title role as Alraune), Erich Von Stroheim, Karlheinz Bohm, Harry Meyen, and Rolf Henniger. Note that a movie adaptation of this German story was made five times between 1918 and 1929, and this version was the first remake in almost 30 years! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. Learn More about condition grades 
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