Secrets of the Orient (1928)

Original title

Geheimnisse des Orients

Directed by

Alexandre Volkoff, Anatole Litvak

Genre

drama film, silent film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale

Country

Germany, France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a silent drama set in North Africa and the Middle East. It follows different characters involved in romantic and political intrigue. The story was shot on location in Tunisia and France.

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What happens

Secrets of the Orient (German: Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 German-French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin while Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. A sound version of the film was prepared by Gaumont for English speaking audiences. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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