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Sumurun

Deutschland 1920 Spielfilm

Zuleika, also called Sumurun, is the favourite wife of an old sheikh. But his son desires the beautiful woman, too. She however hates her life in the harem and falls in love with the young mercer Nur-al-Din. A seductive dancing girl, traveling the countryside with a pair of old street performers, helps son and father to forget about the ungrateful playmate, while at the same time ignoring the advances by the hunchbacked juggler, who is fiercely in love with her. Though loving the young sheikh, she longs even more for the gold and power of the old one, so she finally cheats on both of them. It is just a matter of time until it comes to murder in this complicated game of love.

 

Credits

Director

  • Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay

  • Hanns Kräly
  • Ernst Lubitsch

Director of photography

  • Theodor Sparkuhl
  • Fritz Arno Wagner

Music

  • Victor Hollaender (Bei der Uraufführung)
  • Javier Pérez de Azpeitia (Digitalisierte Fassung)

Cast

  • Pola Negri
    Tänzerin
  • Jenny Hasselqvist
    Zuleika, genannt "Sumurun"
  • Aud Egede-Nissen
    Sumuruns Dienerin Haidee
  • Margarete Kupfer
    Alte Frau
  • Paul Wegener
    Scheich von Bagdad
  • Carl Clewing
    Sohn des Scheichs
  • Harry Liedtke
    Stoffhändler Nur-al-Din
  • Jakob Tiedtke
    Obereunuch
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    Buckliger Clown Abdullah
  • Paul Graetz
    1. Diener

Production company

  • Projektions-AG Union (PAGU) (Berlin)

Producer

  • Paul Davidson

Alle Credits

Director

  • Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay

  • Hanns Kräly
  • Ernst Lubitsch

based on

  • Friedrich Freska (Pantomime)

Director of photography

  • Theodor Sparkuhl
  • Fritz Arno Wagner

Production design

  • Kurt Richter
  • Ernö Metzner (Mitarbeit)
  • Ferdinand Bellan (Assistenz)

Costume design

  • Ali Hubert

Music

  • Victor Hollaender (Bei der Uraufführung)
  • Javier Pérez de Azpeitia (Digitalisierte Fassung)

Conductor

  • Bruno Schulz (Bei der Uraufführung)

Cast

  • Pola Negri
    Tänzerin
  • Jenny Hasselqvist
    Zuleika, genannt "Sumurun"
  • Aud Egede-Nissen
    Sumuruns Dienerin Haidee
  • Margarete Kupfer
    Alte Frau
  • Paul Wegener
    Scheich von Bagdad
  • Carl Clewing
    Sohn des Scheichs
  • Harry Liedtke
    Stoffhändler Nur-al-Din
  • Jakob Tiedtke
    Obereunuch
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    Buckliger Clown Abdullah
  • Paul Graetz
    1. Diener
  • Max Kronert
    2. Diener
  • Paul Biensfeldt
    Sklavenhändler
  • Charly Berger

Production company

  • Projektions-AG Union (PAGU) (Berlin)

Producer

  • Paul Davidson

Unit production manager

  • Kurt Waschneck (Technische Leitung)

Shoot

    • 13.03.1920
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 01.09.1920, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Titles

Additional titles
  • Schreibvariante Sumurûn
  • Originaltitel (DE) Sumurun

Versions

Original

Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, stumm
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 01.09.1920, Berlin, Ufa-Palast am Zoo

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
104 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
2.0
Screening:

Aufführung (DE): 09.03.2023, Dresden, Stummfilmtage

Prüffassung

Duration:
6 Akte, 2379 m
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 15.07.1920, B.00111, Jugendverbot

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/sumurun_ea43d4a764205006e03053d50b37753d