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) |
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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] 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.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- 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
Music
[edit | edit source]The sound version features a theme song entitled “In Old Kashmir” which was composed by Ed Elton.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Bock p. 237
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Bock, Hans-Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Secrets of the Orient at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 1928 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- 1928 drama films
- German silent feature films
- German silent drama films
- French silent feature films
- French silent drama films
- Films directed by Alexandre Volkoff
- Films set in Egypt
- UFA GmbH films
- Cine-Allianz films
- German black-and-white films
- 1920s German films
- 1920s French films
- Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
- 1920s German-language films
- German-language French films
- Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner
- 1920s German silent drama film stubs