Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) (1935)

Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)

"The best of the three Student of Prague -films, which is an interesting trilogy since each was made about one decade after the prior. Made during the third reich, but with apparently little involvement from officials, this is a rather radical departure from the stories of the prior films, taking a much more in-depth psychological angle to the events, as the titular student's (who does very little studying in any of these films) reflection isn't stolen, per se, but rather just removed from existe"