''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 ''

''.

Cast

* Lya De Putti * Carl Fenz * Paul Tenor *

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

* 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 {{Germany-silent-film-stub