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Sumurun : an Oriental play in six acts /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K516 | Kino InternationalK576 | Kino International | (set)Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Lubitsch in BerlinPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Kino International, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Originally released in the United States under the title: One Arabian night
  • Title on spine of container: Ernst Lubitsch's Sumurun
Uniform titles:
  • Sumurun (Motion picture). English.
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Freksa, Friedrich, 1882-1955. Sumurun
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .S868786 2007
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Theodor Sparkuhl ; set decorator, Kurt Richter ; costume design, Ali Hubert ; new music score, Javier Perez de Azpeitia ; title translation, Alex Zuckrow.
Cast: Paul Wegener, Carl Clewing, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen, Jacob Tiedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Pola Negri, Ernst Lubitsch, Margarete Kupfer, Harry Liedtke, Max Kronert, Paul Graetz.Summary: In this blending of melodrama and comedy, the story of a rebellious harem member who rejects the sheikh and falls in love with a merchant is interwoven with several other related stories.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1614 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050127956

Based on the pantomime by Friedrich Freska.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1920.

Silent film with musical accompaniment.

Full screen (1.33:1).

Film employs tinted sequences.

"Reconstructed by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, Wiesbaden through L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna and Národni Fimovy Archiv, Prague under the direction of Enno Patalas."

Special features: Gallery of images; Lubitsch filmography.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Silent film with English intertitles translated from the German.

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