Secrets of the Orient
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| Directed by | Alexandre Volkoff |
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| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
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| Distributed by | UFA (Germany) |
Release date | 19 October 1928 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
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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]
Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.
Cast
- Nikolas Kolin as Ali, shoemaker in Cairo
- Iván Petrovich as Prince Achmed
- Dimitri Dimitriev as Sultan Schariah
- Gaston Modot as Prince Hussein
- Julius Falkenstein as Astrologer
- Hermann Picha as Sultan's fool
- Aleksandr Vertinsky as Vezir
- Marcella Albani as Sobeide, Sultan's favorite
- Agnes Petersen-Mozzuchinowa as Princess Gylnare, daughter of Sultan
- Nina Koshetz as Fatme, wife of Ali
- Dita Parlo as Slave of the Princess
- Brigitte Helm
- Steffie Vida
References
- ^ Bock p. 237
Bibliography
- Bock, Hans-Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.
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- 1928 films
- French films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- 1928 drama films
- German silent feature films
- German drama films
- French silent feature films
- French drama films
- Films directed by Alexandre Volkoff
- Films set in Egypt
- UFA films
- Cine-Allianz films
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German film stubs
- Silent drama film stubs