Sumurun (a.k.a. One Arabian Night) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa. Plot A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Janaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Janaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The slave trader Achmed wants to sell Janaia to the Sheik for his harem. At the Palace, the Sheik finds out that his favourite, Sumurun, is in love with Nur al Din, the handsome clothes merchant. He wants to condemn her to death but his son obtains her pardon. After seeing Janaia dancing, the Sheik is keen to buy her. Yeggar is desperate and takes a magic pill which make him look dead. His body is hidden in a chest. The women from the harem come to Nur al Din's shop and hide him in a chest so that he can be brought into the Palace. The chest containing Yeggar's body is also brought to the Palace and the Old Lady manages to revive him. The Sheik finds Janaia making love to his son and kills both of them. He then finds Sumurun making love to Nur al Din and wants to kill them but he is stabbed in the back by Yegger. Cast Paul Wegener as the Old Sheikh Carl Clewing as the Young Sheikh Jenny Hasselqvist as Sumurun Aud Egede Nissen as Haidee, a Servant Harry Liedtke as Nur-Al Din, the Cloth Merchant Paul Graetz as Puffti, a Servant Max Kronert as Muffti, a Servant Ernst Lubitsch as Yeggar, the Hunchback Beggar Margarete Kupfer as an Old Woman Pola Negri as Yannaia, a Dancer Paul Biensfeldt as Achmed, the Slave Trader Jakob Tiedtke as Head Eunuch
Sumurun (a.k.a. One Arabian Night) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa. Plot A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Janaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Janaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The slave trader Achmed wants to sell Janaia to the Sheik for his harem. At the Palace, the Sheik finds out that his favourite, Sumurun, is in love with Nur al Din, the handsome clothes merchant. He wants to condemn her to death but his son obtains her pardon. After seeing Janaia dancing, the Sheik is keen to buy her. Yeggar is desperate and takes a magic pill which make him look dead. His body is hidden in a chest. The women from the harem come to Nur al Din's shop and hide him in a chest so that he can be brought into the Palace. The chest containing Yeggar's body is also brought to the Palace and the Old Lady manages to revive him. The Sheik finds Janaia making love to his son and kills both of them. He then finds Sumurun making love to Nur al Din and wants to kill them but he is stabbed in the back by Yegger. Cast Paul Wegener as the Old Sheikh Carl Clewing as the Young Sheikh Jenny Hasselqvist as Sumurun Aud Egede Nissen as Haidee, a Servant Harry Liedtke as Nur-Al Din, the Cloth Merchant Paul Graetz as Puffti, a Servant Max Kronert as Muffti, a Servant Ernst Lubitsch as Yeggar, the Hunchback Beggar Margarete Kupfer as an Old Woman Pola Negri as Yannaia, a Dancer Paul Biensfeldt as Achmed, the Slave Trader Jakob Tiedtke as Head Eunuch