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Carmen

191880 minGermany
Drama

Synopsis

A soldier's attraction to Carmen draws him away from his fiancée, his military career and the life he had expected to lead. Joining the smugglers around her does not secure her lasting affection. When she turns toward a celebrated bullfighter, his refusal to accept her independence transforms devotion into a threat.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs
79:41
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Inspirations

Lubitsch adapts Mérimée's story with Pola Negri as Carmen. The film's American release used the title Gypsy Blood; its plot, like Bizet's opera, concentrates on the central relationship rather than the novella's full framing narrative.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Photograph credit

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  • Pola Negri — Russell Ball (1896–1942) · Public domain
  • Harry Liedtke — Alexander Binder; http://film.virtual-history.com/postcard.php?id=7791 This image is a movie star postcard published by Ross Verlag in Berlin . This is image nr. 284/1 from their series. It was published ca. 1919–1924. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. In particular, Ross images are in the public domain in Germany only if it can be shown that the photographer (usually mentioned on the image itself) has died more than 70 years ago. Ross images that are in the public domain in Germany may still be copyrighted in the United States if they were first published later than 1930 and were still copyrighted in Germany on January 1, 1996 (i.e. if the photographer died in 1926 or later). · Public domain
  • Leopold von Ledebur — Becker & Maass / Marie Boehm; ebay.com · Public domain
  • Wilhelm Diegelmann — Alexander Binder; Transfer from German Wikipedia · Public domain

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