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Carmen
Also known as Gypsy Blood: A Love Tale of Old Spain and Gipsy Blood in the USA
(1918) Germany
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Pola Negri [Carmen], Harry Liedtke [Don José Novarro], Leopold von Ledebur [Escamillo], Max Kronert [Remendato], Magnus Stifter [Leutnant Estaban], Fritz Richard, Grete Diercks [Dolores], Wilhelm Diegelmann [Gefängniswärter], Heinrich Peer [Englisher offizer], Paul Biensfeldt [Garcia], Margarete Kupfer [Carmens Wirtin], Sophie Pagay [Don José’s mutter], Paul Conradi [Don Cairo], Viktor Janson, Albert Venohr
Union-Film production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Scenario by Hanns Kräly, Norbert Falk and Grete Diercks, from the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. Set design by Karl Machus and Kurt Richter. Costume design by Alexander Hubert. Cinematography by Alfred Hansen. / Released 17 December 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was edited and intertitled in English by Myron M. Stearns and released in the USA as Gypsy Blood: A Love Tale of Old Spain by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Attraction], on 8 May 1921.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist [16mm reduction positives (1921 USA release version)].
Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung [Germany]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Smugglers - Soldiers - Spain - Spanish
Listing updated: 18 October 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.0611; Bohn-Light pp. 88, 95, 121, 133; Card-Seductive pp. 90, 91, 94; Fell-History p. 118, 119; Limbacher-Feature p. 101; Shipman-Cinema p. 64; Sinyard-Silent p. 159; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 103, 183; Weinberg-Lubitsch pp. 323-324 : ClasIm-225 pp. 50-51 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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