← Back to Cinema Atlas
Discover great cinema and the connections that made it possible.
Carmen
GERMANY · 1918

Carmen

Ernst Lubitsch
doomed love seduction and temptation class conflict obsession tragic downfall
Watch on MUBI → Stream on Criterion →

Synopsis

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.

More from Ernst Lubitsch

Germany
To Be or Not to Be
1942 •
View →
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 •
View →
That Lady in Ermine
1948 • United States
View →