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Alraune

Alraune, later renamed Unnatural: The Fruit of Evil, is a 1952 black and white West German science fiction film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt, based on the 1911 novel Alraune by German novelist Hanns Heinz Ewers, starring Hildegard Knef and Erich von Stroheim. The film involves a scientist (von Stroheim) who creates a woman (Knef) who is beautiful and yet soulless, lacking any sense of morality.

Plot

Medical student Frank Braun (Karlheinz Böhm) arrives at his uncle's estate, Professor Jacob ten Brinken (Erich von Stroheim), to ask for a loan in order to continue his studies to become a doctor. Instead he comes across a beautiful woman Alraune (Hildegard Knef) gazing outside on the second story of the house. Upon asking the maid (Gardy Brombacher), she claims to not know of any guests staying at the moment and to return the next day to see his uncle. He meets with his friends Wolf Gontram (Rolf Henniger) and Count "Gerald" Geroldingen (Harry Meyen). Desperately anxious to know the identity of the mysterious woman, they decide return to ten Brinken's home. While Gerald and Wolf don't meet her, Frank manages to strike up a conversation with Alraune, and learns she is Professor Jacob ten Brinken's daughter, who ran away from the university, and asks him to meet her again the next day at the nearby sundial.