''Gypsy Blood'' (German: ''Zigeunerblut'') is a 1920 German
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
directed by
Karl Otto Krause Karl may refer to:
People
* Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
* Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne
* Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer
* Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...
and starring
Lya De Putti,
Carl Fenz, and
Paul Hansen.
[Bock & Bergfelder p.83] It is based on
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...
's ''
Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
'' and should not be confused with the 1918 German silent ''
Carmen
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
''.
Cast
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Lya De Putti
*
Carl Fenz
*
Paul Tenor
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Max Laurence
Friedrich Rudolf Max Laurence (5 August 1852 – 26 May 1926) was a German stage and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913)
* '' The Dancer'' (1915)
* '' Hans und Hanni'' (1915)
* '' Mountain Air'' (1917)
* '' Diary of a ...
*
Fritz Moleska
*
References
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1920 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Karl Otto Krause
German silent feature films
Films about Romani people
German black-and-white films
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