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The Caravan of Death

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Original title

Die Todeskarawane

Year

1920

Country

Germany

Director

Josef Stein

Screenwriter

Erwin Baron, Marie Luise Droop. Novel: Karl May

Cast

Cinematography

Gustave Preiss, Otto Stein (B&W)

Genre

Drama | Silent Film

Synopsis

Subtitled, “A film of the southern sun in six chapters”, the film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure. It is now considered lost.

Cast members Carl de Vogt and Meibhart Maur had previously appeared together in Fritz Lang’s Spiders in 1919. Carl de Vogt also appeared with Conrad Veidt in Der Weg des Todes (The Road of Death) in 1917.

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The Caravan of Death

1920

Josef Stein