The Green Manuela (1923)

Original title

Die grüne Manuela - Ein Film aus dem Süden

Directed by

Ewald André Dupont

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

2h 16m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gypsy dancer in Spain gets mixed up with a group of smugglers. Her story shares many similarities with the classic tale of Carmen.

melodramaticromantictragicold-fashionedexoticatmospherictensesilent-era

What happens

The Green Manuela (German: Die grüne Manuela) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Lucie Labass, Josef Winter and Grete Berger. The film is based on a novel by Clara Ratzka. A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain. The film's plot bears a number of similarities to Carmen. It was the first time Dupont worked with the cinematographer Werner Brandes and the art director Alfred Junge who were to become important collaborators with him. The poster of this movie is seen in Russian director Dziga Vertov's movie Man with a Movie Camera (1929) playing at a theater named the Proletarian, symbolizing Vertov's disdain of Western fanciful films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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