Sumurun
- Paul Wegener: The old Sheikh
- Carl Clewing: The young Sheikh
- Jenny Hasselqvist: Sumurun, favorite wife
- Aud Egede -Nissen: Haidee, her servant
- Harry Liedtke: Only -al- Din, draper
- Max Kronert: Muffti, 2 servants
- Ernst Lubitsch: The Hunchback
- Margarete Copper: The Old
- Pola Negri: dancer
- Paul Biensfeldt: Achmed, slave traders
- Jakob Tiedtke: eunuch
Sumurun is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from the year 1920. It is based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa, which was filmed in 1910 by Max Reinhardt.
Content
Act 1
The medieval Baghdad: The Hunchback worships the beautiful dancer. Together they draw with a theater car through the country and occur in small villages. Slavers Ahmed sees the dancer and suggests the hunchback before presenting them to the old sheik for his harem. The chases him off.
In the harem of the sheikhs, the women are thrilled Meanwhile, as the young draper Only -al-Din offers his goods at the gate of the palace the palace eunuchs. Especially Sumurun, the favorite wife of the sheikh is carried away from the substance dealer and get caught in their enthusiasm from the old Sheikh. Meanwhile, stands in front of the window but his son and throws Sumurun kiss hands - this rejects it though, but the old sheik jealous.
Act 2
The jugglers are moving into Baghdad. Immediately, the residents on his feet and dazzled the game of the hunchback, the Old and the dancer. When the young Sheikh wants the place happen, it drives many of the crowd. Although he initially refers the jugglers of the city, the sight of the dancer makes him mild - the hunchback had previously commissioned to ensnare the sheikh, on that group is allowed to remain. The plan works. During the hunchback spends his last money to buy the dancer a bracelet, lavished the love Sheikh dancer with the materials - the hunchback is left disappointed.
Act 3
Sumurun to be beheaded for their flirtation. Just before the sentence is carried out, Haidee may request the chief eunuch to Sumuruns rescue. It reports to the young sheikh of their fate and begs his father to spare her. Everything was entirely his fault. The old sheikh takes back his judgment and Sumurun is saved. He now also rejects the Anbgebot the slaver, to see the beautiful dancer up close. As Sumurun but rejects it in the bedchamber, he lets the slave traders come and follow him to the place where the jugglers have halted.
Act 4
The jugglers occur. The hunchback disguise Pierrot -like and brings the amount initially laugh. As, however, he sees how the dancer and secretly came to the theater car young Sheikh kiss, he is deeply sad. Melancholic he accompanied the appearance of the dancer on the lute, regarded by the old Sheikh. Then, true to the old Sheikh, take the dancer in his harem. While packing her things and the old inhibitions drunk, swallows the hunchback in his grief pills that let him sleep todähnlich.
The dancer is shocked when she finds lifeless the hunchback and flees. It is followed by the young Sheikh and after a chase, she manages to get to the slave traders. The old man, meanwhile, is desperate when she sees motionless on the stage the hunchback and hides him in a sack. This is of Puffti and Muffti, the servant only al -Din, stolen, because they suspect him fully jewelry. The old man follows the thieves unremarkable.
Act 5
The hunchback is discovered in the fabric store and hide the panic servant him in the attic. There he gets the Old Run-down and now sitting on the stairs, sleeping hunchback is conveyed by the servants in a fabric chest. The harem women of the old sheikh arrive to buy new materials. Haidee organizes a tryst between unobserved Sumurun and only al - Din. When the women want to go, they maneuver the cloth merchant in precisely that case, in which also the hunchback is. It is worn as the second box with the purchased material of the eunuchs to the palace. The old man follows the group.
It is possible, unobserved to smuggle the substance dealer in the palace. De eunuchs find the lifeless hunchback in a box and take to their heels in horror.
6 act
When slave traders, the dancer is dressed for the old Sheikh. While it is carried in a palanquin to the palace, it is possible for the elderly to wake the hunchback. The will be mad with jealousy when he sees how the dancer goes into the palace. It is the new favorite wife of the sheikh and spends the night with him.
The dancer is awakened by the young sheikh, who includes in his father's bed in his arms and kisses her. The young Sheikh turn the hunchback is followed. As the dancer sees him, she lets out a cry of surprise, of which the sleeping old Sheikh is awakened. He kills the dancer and his son. When he storms into his harem and Sumurun with the carpet dealer sees in an intimate embrace, he wants to kill them both, but he is stabbed by the hunchback.
The gates of the palace are open now. The harem girls leave the building and also Sumurun and only al -Din can now become a couple. Only the hunchback is left with his lute.
Production
The monumental decoration and equipment comes from Kurt Richter and Erno Metzner. The costumes were designed by Ali Hubert.
Filming for Sumurun began in the Ufa studios Union Berlin -Tempelhof on 13 March 1920. Censorship finished the film with a youth ban. The world premiere of Sumurun took place on September 1, 1920 at the Ufa - Palast am Zoo in Berlin.
The original music created by Sumurum Victor Hollaender. With the release of the restored film on DVD in 2006, the film with music by Javier Pérez de Azpeitia from the year 2005 was highlighted. The restored film is like viragiert the original.
Criticism
The contemporary critics felt that with Sumurun " a work succeeded [ was ] out of the strongest artistic effects, that obtained with the purest means the effects of great art and way points in the movie - new territory, away from all pseudo theatrical barbarism. " Is the film an " oriental tales in motion pictures where the director Ernst Lubitsch has its characteristic stamp on. "
The lexicon of the International film called Sumurun as " History ham ' with huge amount of scenery and costume overlooking the box office, but also a cinematic journey into a universe of emotions and passions of great intensity and utmost perfection with a remarkable Ernst Lubitsch in a the leading roles. "
Thomas Mann saw the movie on September 23, 1920 in Munich Lichtspieltheater Sendlingertor together with Josef Ponten and recorded his impressions in The Magic Mountain processed later. "