The Indian Tomb (1959)

Original title

Das indische Grabmal

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Genre

drama film, adventure film, romance film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

U

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 120 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A European architect travels to India and becomes entangled in a maharaja's plans. The story involves romance and danger in a royal court.

adventurousromanticexoticdramaticdatedmelodramaticserieal-likesweeping

What happens

The Indian Tomb (German: Das indische Grabmal) is a 1959 adventure film, co-written and directed by Fritz Lang. Produced by Artur Brauner, it is an international co-production of West Germany, France and Italy. It is the second film, after The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959), of "Fritz Lang's Indian Epic" duology, which are based on the 1918 novel The Indian Tomb, written by Lang's ex-wife Thea von Harbou. The Indian Tomb stars Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Valéry Inkijinoff, and Sabine Bethmann. Interiors were shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Helmut Nentwig and Willy Schatz. In 1960 American International Pictures obtained the rights to both films in "Fritz Lang's Indian Epic", combining them into one heavily edited, 90-minute-long feature named Journey to the Lost City which earned domestic gross of $500,000. After both were dubbed into Spanish, they were shown as separate films, where the second is a direct continuation of the first. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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