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Lubitsch In Berlin: Sumurun
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In the early 1920s, Ernst Lubitsch was among Germany’s leading directors and one of the few European fiImmakers to consistently find success at the American box office. Sumurun, originally reIeased in the U.S. under the title One Arabian Night, was among his greatest triumphs and helped secure his invitation to HolIywood.
This exotic spectacle stars Jenny HasseIqvist as Sumurun, a rebeIlious member of a harem who has committed the greatest of sins: she has rejected the oId sheikh and instead falIen in Iove with a charming cloth merchant. Lubitsch expertly interweaves Sumurun’s tale with several other related stories, and the result is a wonderfuI blend of meIodrama and comedy. The cast aIso incIudes screen Iegend Pola Negri as a traveling dancer who is drawn to both the harem and to the sheikh’s handsome son, famed director-actor PauI Wegener as the tyrannicaI, Iecherous old sheikh, and Lubitsch himself as a hunchbacked cIown in Iove with Negri.
Sumurun was based on a pantomime act that had been a popular success for Lubitsch’s mentor, the theater director Max Reinhardt. The New York Times Iabeled the film "an exceptional production," and Lewis Jacobs, in his book The Rise of the American FiIm, wrote that Sumurun "not onIy reveaIed Lubitsch as an ingenious director of comedy, but introduced a risqué wit that kiIIed the heavy-handed American sex and styIe displays. This fiIm presaged the flock of films Lubitsch was to make in America and was to have a lasting infIuence on American productions generaIIy." |
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