Carmen
AKA Gypsy Blood in the USA
(1918) German
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Pola Negri [Carmen], Harry Liedtke [Don José Novarro], Leopold von Ledebur [Escamillo], Max Kronert [Remendato], Magnus Stifter [Leutnant Estaban], Fritz Richard, Grete Diercks [Dolores], Wilhelm Diegelmann [Gefängniswärter], Heinrich Peer [Englisher offizer], Paul Biensfeldt [Garcia], Margarete Kupfer [Carmens Wirtin], Sophie Pagay [Don José’s mutter], Paul Conradi [Don Cairo], Victor Janson, Albert Venohr

Union-Film production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Scenario by Hanns Kräly, Norbert Falk and Grete Diercks, from the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. Set design by Karl Machus and Kurt Richter. Costume design by Alexander Hubert. Cinematography by Alfred Hansen. / Released 17 December 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was released in the USA on 8 May 1921 as Gypsy Blood by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Soldiers - Spain - Spanish

Listing updated: 12 October 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0611; Bohn-Light pp. 88, 95, 121, 133; Card-Seductive pp. 90, 91, 94; Fell-History p. 118, 119; Limbacher-Feature p. 101; Shipman-Cinema p. 64; Sinyard-Silent p. 159; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 103, 183; Weinberg-Lubitsch pp. 323-324 : ClasIm-225 pp. 50-51 : Website-IMDb.