The Tower of Silence (film)
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Director Johannes Guter Screenplay Curt Johannes Braun Duration Country Weimar Republic | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Producer Erich Pommer Writer Curt J. Braun Language German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1924 (1924) People also search for Anastasia, the False Czars Daughter Cast Xenia Desni (Eva), Nigel Barrie (Arved Holl), Hanna Ralph (Liane), Fritz Delius (Wilfred Durian), Avrom Morewski (Eldor Vartalun), Gustav Oberg (Ceel) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tower of Silence (German: Der Turm des Schweigens) is a 1924 German mystic melodrama directed by Johannes Guter and starring Xenia Desni and Nigel Barrie. The Tower of Silence is a silent film, and one of the few films by Guter to survive. In 2007 it became the director's first film to be restored for modern audiences.
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The Tower of Silence centres around Eva (Xenia Desni), a beautiful woman kept in a high tower by her grieving widowed father. When an attractive explorer, Arved (Nigel Barrie), is saved by Eva after crashing his car near the tower, he introduces her into high society. When Arved, who was previously believed to be dead, discovers that he has lost his fiancee to ex-partner and aviator Wilfred, he must decide whether to reveal a secret that will destroy his old friend.
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