The Tower of Silence (film)

The Tower of Silence
The Tower of Silence
Directed by	Johannes Guter
Written by	Curt Johannes Braun
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Starring	Xenia Desni; Nigel Barrie; Fritz Delius; Avrom Morewski
Cinematography	Günther Rittau
Production; company	Universum Film AG
Release date	29 January 1925;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Weimar Republic
Languages	Silent ; German intertitles

The Tower of Silence (German: Der Turm des Schweigens) is a 1925 German mystic melodrama directed by Johannes Guter and starring Xenia Desni and Nigel Barrie. The Tower of Silence is a silent film, and one of the few films by Guter to survive. In 2007, it became the director's first film to be restored for modern audiences.^[1]

Plot[edit]

The Tower of Silence centres around Eva (Xenia Desni), a beautiful woman kept in a high tower by her grieving widowed father. When an attractive explorer, Arved (Nigel Barrie), is saved by Eva after crashing his car near the tower, he introduces her into high society. When Arved, who was previously believed to be dead, discovers that he has lost his fiancée to ex-partner and aviator Wilfred, he must decide whether to reveal a secret that will destroy his old friend.

Cast[edit]

Xenia Desni as Eva
Nigel Barrie as Arved Holl
Fritz Delius as Wilfred Durian
Avrom Morewski (Abraham Morewski) as Eldor Vartalun
Gustav Oberg as Ceel
Hanna Ralph as Liane
Hermann Leffler as Mac Farland
Philipp Manning as Werner Neuwitt
Jenny Jugo as Evi

References[edit]

^ "The Tower of Silence" (PDF). moma.org. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

External links[edit]

The Tower of Silence at IMDb
The Tower of Silence at AllMovie

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[1] "The Tower of Silence" (PDF). moma.org. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

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