Sumurun (1920)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

drama film, silent film, adventure film, romance film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

6

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A traveling pantomime troupe arrives in a bustling Arabian city where a hunchbacked clown falls for a slave girl. His unrequited love sets off a tangled chain of betrayals and revenge among the performers and local royalty.

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What happens

Sumurun (U.S. title: One Arabian Night) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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