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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, eine Zigaretten-arbeiterin], Harry Liedtke [Don José Novarro], Frau Pagay (Sophie Pagay) [Don José’s mutter], Grete Diercks [Dolores, seine Braut], Paul Biensfeldt [Garcia, Schmuggler], Paul Conradi [Dan Cairo, Schmuggler], Max Kronert [Remendato, Schmuggler], Margarete Kupfer [Carmens Wirtin], Leopold von Ledebur [Escamillo, ein Stierfechter], Heinrich Peer [ein englisher Offizer], Wilhelm Diegelmann [ein Gefängniswärter], Magnus Stifter [Leutnant Estaban]; Viktor Janson, Fritz Richard, 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 Kurt Richter + [Karl Machus]. 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 in private film collections [16mm reduction positives (1921 USA release version)]; in the Bundesarchive-Filmarchiv film archive [two 35mm duplicate positives (incomplete)]; and in the Deutsche Kinematek film archive [35mm nitrate positive (fragments)].
Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung [Germany]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Smugglers - Soldiers - Spain - Spanish
Listing updated: 12 November 2024.
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: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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