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Secrets of the Orient

1928 film

Secrets of the Orient (German: Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 German-French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev.[1] It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin while Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. A sound version of the film was prepared by Gaumont for English speaking audiences. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.

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Cast

Music

The sound version features a theme song entitled “In Old Kashmir” which was composed by Ed Elton.

References

  1. [1]
    Bock p. 237

Bibliography

  • Bock, Hans-Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.
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