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id: Unidentified Film No. 014
director: Unknown
year: 1914-1920
country: Italy
alternative titles: Italienisches Drama
Short synopsis: Fragment of an Italian drama set in Arabic ambience (about 1914/20).

Arabic setting. A European sits at a small table and studies a map. An Arabic girl brings tea. She asks about his arm injury. They say goodbye amorously. - An Arab appears from behind a carpet curtain and scrambles at the documents on the table [frame scan 1]. - He confronts his daughter. - He calls his armed bodyguard (also an Arab) and gives orders [frame scan 2]. His daughter (close up) who is hidden behind a curtain [frame scan 3] overhears the scene. The daughter in the garden. The police (with helmets and pistols) arrest the Arab. The girl and the European man caress each other.
Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 10.10.2008
Production Company: Societa Italiana "Cines", Rome
Length: 43m
Format: 35mm, 1:1.33
Picture/Sound: coloured, silent
Notes: 'Societa Italiana "Cines" Roma' edgecode.
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