Secrets of the Orient

Secrets of the Orient
Secrets of the Orient
Directed by	Alexandre Volkoff
Written by	Norbert Falk; Robert Liebmann; Alexandre Volkoff;
Produced by	Noë Bloch; Gregor Rabinovitch;
Starring	Nikolas Kolin; Iván Petrovich; Dimitri Dimitriev; Gaston Modot;
Cinematography	Fédote Bourgasoff; Curt Courant; Nikolai Toporkoff;
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production; companies	UFA; Ciné-Alliance;
Distributed by	UFA (Germany)
Release date	19 October 1928
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	Germany; France;
Languages	Silent Version; German Intertitles; Sound (Synchronzied); English Intertitles;

Secrets of the Orient (German: Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 German-French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev.^[1] It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin while Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. A sound version of the film was prepared by Gaumont for English speaking audiences. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

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The sound version features a theme song entitled “In Old Kashmir” which was composed by Ed Elton.

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