the student of prague be an early feature length horror drama or and rather and it be an autorenfilm ( i. e. an author film ) . this film be a member of a movement of many movement that try to lend respectability to cinéma and or just make a profit and by adapt literature or theatre onto the screen . fortunately and the story of this book with move picture be good . use alfred de musset poem and a story by edgar allen poe and it centre on the doppelgänger theme . unfortunately and the most cinematic this film get be the double exposure effect to make paul wegener appear twice within scene . guido seeber be a special effect wizard for his day and but he not very good at position the camera or move it . film scholar leon hunt ( print in early cinema represent space and frame and narrative ) and however and have make an interesting analysis on this film use frame to amplify the double theme represent character be split by left or right and near or far and frontal or diagonal framing of character and shot . regardless and the film mostly consist of extend long shot from a fixed position and which be noticeably primitive . worse be the lack of edit while there very little scene dissection and scene linger . none of this be unusual for 1913 and but there be more advanced film in this respect around the same time and include the good part of atlantis ( august blom and 1913 ) and twilight of a woman soul ( yevgeni bauer and 1913 ) and the short film of d. w. griffith . an expanded universal film vocabulary by 1926 would allow for a vastly superior remake . furthermore and the remake have a reason for the lyduschka character and other than be an occasional troublemaker and spectator surrogate . here and the obtrusively acted gypsy lurks around and seemingly and with a cloak of invisibility . i know their world be silent to me and but i assume and with their lip move and such and that their world would not be silent to them and so how can lyduschka leer over others shoulder and not be notice . nevertheless and this be one of the most interesting early film conceptually . wegener and who seem to have be the primary mind behind this film and in addition to play the lead and would later play the title role and co direct the golem in 1920 help to further inaugurate the supernatural thread in german silent cinéma . ( note represent the first version i view be about an hour long ( surely not quite complete ) and be in poor condition and with face bleach at time and such . i be not sure who be the distributor . i have also since see the alpha dvd and which and at 41 minute and be miss footage present in the aforementioned print and also have few and very different title card and but be visually not a bad . the repetitive score be best muted and though . ) .