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Sumurun
GERMANY · 1920

Sumurun

Ernst Lubitsch
unrequited love forbidden romance class struggle harem life romantic triangles
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Synopsis

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

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