director: Robert Siodmak
year: 1931
country: Germany

This film is considered found

Source notes
Hidekazu TOZAKI, 15.04.2008

This film exists as TEMPESTE DI PASSIONE at Fondazione Cineteca Italiana in Milan. Nitrate dupe negative of the italian release version, which was changed to appear as a silent movie with italian intertitles and a music track. Unfortunately it is not the music track of the original German version! So there is no audible dialogue, and there is only one piece of original sound: Anna Sten singing her song. In preparation for the 1998 Berlin Film Festival retrospective on the Siodmak Brothers, this element was preserved with the help of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and serviceable prints should be available from Milan as well as from Wiesbaden.

In 1998 at "Il Cinema Ritrovato" at Bologna, Italian version has screened. See details for the following link. In the catalog on above URL, they also say only surviving fragment for this original German version runs at 5 minutes, however, 82 minutes German version sometimes screened in National Film Center, Tokyo, Japan at least since 1970's. Most recent screening is dated as 23-Feb-2006. This print has been kept in Japan since its first release on 19-Apr-1934, with original German soundtrack, but also with Japanese subtitles. It lacks some frames for splices etc, also it looks some gap in story at least at the last scene, probably because of the censor at that time in Japan.
Detailed research are needed to determine how much of the films are cut, with consulting its original script (if available in somewhere).

We screened all versions of STÜRME DER LEIDENSCHAFT in our Robert Siodmak retrospective at Zeughauskino: on 6-April-2014, the Italian version TEMPESTE DI PASSIONE along with the French version TUMULTES, and on 30-June-2014 the German version from the collection of the National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. This was the first screening of the German version in Germany for several decades, probably since the 1930s. The Japanese print lacks about 20 minutes compared to the German release version. But, the missing scenes are different to the ones in TEMPESTE DI PASSIONE. So it would be possible to reconstruct the image of the German version, only a few gaps on the soundtrack would remain.