Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1918


Carmen (1918 film)

Buy Carmen (1918 film) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




'Carmen' is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, and Leopold von Ledebur. It was based on the novella 'Carmen' by Prosper Mrime. Like Bizet's opera 'Carmen', this film only adapts the third part of Mrime's novella and transforms the character of Don Jos at the beginning of the story from bandit on the run to honest man in love with his childhood sweetheart. The film was released with English intertitles in the United States in 1921 under the alternative title 'Gypsy Blood'.Eyman p. 378

Plot



The story is told by a man at a campfire who says that it took place many years before.

Don Jos was a Dragoon Sergeant in Sevilla who fell madly in love with Carmen, a beautiful gypsy. For her, he killed an officer and gave up his fiance and his career in the army, and became a smuggler. But Carmen's love did not last. She left him and went to Gibraltar where she fell in love with the famous bullfighter Escamillo. Back in Sevilla, Carmen rode triumphantly in Escamillo's carriage on his way to a bullfight. At the end of the bullfight, Jos confronted Carmen and when she told him that she no longer loved him, stabbed her to death.

Back at the campfire seen at the beginning, the man who told the story adds that some say that Carmen did not die for she was in league with the Devil himself.'

Cast



References



Bibliography



*


Buy Carmen (1918 film) now from Amazon

<-- Return to movies from 1918



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1110986114.