Sumurun [One Arabian Night] (1920) on

This early Ernst Lubitsch feature film was stars Pola Negri and Paul Wegener.

This edition has been mastered from the 35mm reconstruction print prepared by the F.W. Murnau Foundation, with L’Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna, and Národni Filmovy Archiv, Prague, under the direction of Enno Patalas, with the cooperation of Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, the George Eastman House, Gosfilmofond, the Library of Congress, and the Stadtmuseum-Filmmuseum of Munich.

USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
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This Region 1 NTSC DVD is also available directly from Kino International.

Our first look at Sunrise Silents’ DVD-R edition of One Arabian Night reveals a video transfer from a 16mm reduction print.

The disc features musical accompaniment performed on a MIDI-based synthesizer.

The disc also includes a Lupino Lane comedy (written and directed by Roscoe Arbuckle), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, the fourth episode of the serial Mystery of the Double Cross (1917), transferred from a good 16mm reduction print, a short sound-film novelty featuring Reginald Denny, Bobby Vernon and Anita Page, among others, transferred from what appears to be a very-good 35mm print, a Pola Negri photo gallery (33 images), a glass-slide gallery (22 images), and an introduction to Pola Negri by Rich Olivieri.

This Region 0 NTSC or PAL DVD is available directly from Sunrise Silents.

Other silent era Ernst Lubitsch films available on DVD home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
The Doll (1919)
Eternal Love (1929)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1919)
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
The Wildcat (1921)

About Ernst Lubitsch:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)

Other silent era Emil Jannings films available on DVD home video:
Anna Boleyn (1920)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Othello (1922)
Tartuffe (1925)
Waxworks (1924)

Other silent era Pola Negri films available on DVD home video:
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Hotel Imperial (1927)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
The Wildcat (1921)
The Woman He Scorned (1929)

Other German silent era films available on DVD home video:
Asphalt (1929)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
Destiny (1921)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Different from the Others (1919)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Genuine (1920)
The Golem (1920)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
The Holy Mountain (1926)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Joyless Street (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Michael (1924)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
Opus I (1921)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
People on Sunday (1929)
Secrets of a Soul (1926)
Sex in Chains (1928)
The Spiders (1919-1920)
Spies (1928)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Tartuffe (1926)
The Treasure (1923)
Warning Shadows (1923)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Woman in the Moon (1929)

About German filmmakers:
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Way to Murnau (2003)

Collections and boxsets that include German silent era films:
Fritz Lang Epic Collection (1924-1929)
The F.W. Murnau Collection (1922-1931)
German Expressionism Collection (1920-1926)
German Horror Classics (1920-1924)
The Masterworks of the German Horror Cinema (1920-1922)