Underplayed Gems

Dance on the Volcano (1920)

Dance on the Volcano poster
Original title
Der Fluch der Menschheit
Directed by
Richard Eichberg
Genre
drama film, silent film, adventure film
Country
Germany
Runtime
56 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A French aristocrat falls in love with a Russian nightclub singer. His attraction to her pulls him into a Russian revolutionary movement.

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What happens

Daughter of the Night (German: Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan, lit. 'The Dance on the Volcano') is a German drama film directed by Richard Eichberg. The film is about a French aristocrat (played by Bela Lugosi) who falls in love with a Russian nightclub singer, and his attraction to her involves him in a Russian revolutionary movement. The ten-reel film was originally shown in Germany as Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan (Dance on the Volcano), released in two parts: as Sybil Joung (transl. Sybil Young) and Der Tod des Großfürsten (transl. The Death of the Grand Duke). It received positive reviews from German publications Film und Brettl and Deutsche Lichtspiel-Zeitung. A condensed version of the film with English subtitles was released in the United States in 1921, retitled Daughter of the Night. This shortened American print is within the collection of the George Eastman House, and is available on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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