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Secrets of the Orient (German: Geheimnisse des Orients) is a 1928 German-French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev.[1] It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin while Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard.

Secrets of the Orient
Directed by	Alexandre Volkoff
Written by	Norbert Falk Robert Liebmann Alexandre Volkoff
Produced by	Noë Bloch Gregor Rabinovitch
Starring	Nikolas Kolin Iván Petrovich Dimitri Dimitriev Gaston Modot
Cinematography	Fédote Bourgasoff Curt Courant Nikolai Toporkoff
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production companies	UFA Ciné-Alliance
Distributed by	UFA (Germany)
Release date	19 October 1928
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	Germany France
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Cast

• Nikolas Kolin as Ali, shoemaker in Cairo
• Iván Petrovich as Prince Achmed
• Dimitri Dimitriev as Sultan Schariah
• Gaston Modot as Prince Hussein
• Julius Falkenstein as Astrologer
• Hermann Picha as Sultan's fool
• Aleksandr Vertinsky as Vezir
• Marcella Albani as Sobeide, Sultan's favorite
• Agnes Petersen-Mozzuchinowa as Princess Gylnare, daughter of Sultan
• Nina Koshetz as Fatme, wife of Ali
• Dita Parlo as Slave of the Princess
• Brigitte Helm
• Steffie Vida

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael. Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.

External links

• Secrets of the Orient at IMDb

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