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Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
June 9, 2009

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

Carmen (1918 film) movie poster

Language
  
SilentGerman intertitles

Writer
  
Prosper Merimee
,
Grete Diercks
, ,
Hanns Kraly
,
Myron M. Stearns

Release date
  
17 December 1918

Screenplay
  
Hanns Kraly, Norbert Falk, Grete Diercks

Cast
  
(Carmen), (Don José Navarro), (Garcia),
Grete Diercks
(Dolores), (English Officer), (Carmens Wirtin - Landlady)

Similar movies
  
Related Ernst Lubitsch movies

Carmen is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke and Leopold von Ledebur. It was based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. Like Bizet's opera Carmen, this film only adapts the third part of Mérimée's novella and transforms the character of Don José at the beginning of the story from bandit on the run to honest man in love with his childhood sweetheart. The film was released with English intertitles in the United States in 1921 under the alternative title Gypsy Blood.

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Plot

The story is told by a man at a camp-fire who says that it took place many years before.

Don José was a Dragoon Sergeant in Sevilla who fell madly in love with Carmen, a beautiful gypsy. For her, he killed an officer and gave up his fiancée and his career in the army, and became a smuggler. But Carmen's love did not last. She left him and went to Gibraltar where she fell in love with the famous bullfighter Escamillo. Back in Sevilla, Carmen rode triumphantly in Escamillo's carriage on his way to a bullfight. At the end of the bullfight, José confronted Carmen and when she told him that she no longer loved him, stabbed her to death.

Back at the camp-fire seen at the beginning, the man who told the story adds that some say that Carmen did not die ′for she was in league with the Devil himself.'

Cast

  • Pola Negri as Carmen
  • Harry Liedtke as Don José Navarro
  • Leopold von Ledebur as Garcia
  • Grete Diercks as Dolores
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann as Gefängniswärter / Prison Guard
  • Heinrich Peer as Englischer Offizier
  • Margarete Kupfer as Carmens Wirtin - Landlady
  • Sophie Pagay as Don Josés Mutter
  • Paul Conradi as Don Cairo
  • Max Kronert as Remendado
  • Magnus Stifter as Lieutnant Escamillo
  • Paul Biensfeldt as Soldat
  • Victor Janson
  • Albert Venohr
  • References

    Carmen (1918 film) Wikipedia
    Carmen (1918 film) IMDb Carmen (1918 film) themoviedb.org


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