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The Foreign Prince (1918)

The Foreign Prince poster
Directed by
Paul Wegener
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A foreign prince visits Germany and gets caught up in local drama. The exact story is lost because no copies of the film survive.

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What happens

The Foreign Prince (German: Der fremde Fürst) is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by and starring Paul Wegener and also featuring Lyda Salmonova and Margarete Kupfer. It is now considered to be a lost film. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Rochus Gliese. Prior to its release, the film was censored for pornographic images in September 1918 as well as on 21 May 1921. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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