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The Loves of Pharaoh

1922110 minGermany
Drama

Synopsis

An Egyptian ruler is expected to secure an alliance by marrying an Ethiopian princess, but becomes obsessed with a Greek captive. Her love for a builder's son places both of them at his mercy. The pharaoh's desires upset the planned union between kingdoms and connect a private struggle for freedom with invasion and rebellion.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
99:30
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Behind the scenes

Lubitsch staged the epic in Germany shortly before moving to Hollywood. The film survives through restoration and reconstruction from scattered materials, so its recovery should not be confused with the rediscovery of an untouched complete original print.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Emil Jannings — Unknown author · Public domain
  • Dagny Servaes — Alexander Binder; ebay · Public domain
  • Paul Biensfeldt — Becker & Maass / Marie Boehm; zvab · Public domain
  • Friedrich Kühne — Unknown author Unknown author; J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs · Public domain
  • Albert Bassermann — Author/source credit not supplied in Commons metadata; file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foreign_Correspondent_trailer_20_Basserman.jpg · 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

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