The Indian Tomb (1959)

Movie
Original title	The Indian tomb
Country of production	Federal Republic of Germany Italy France
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Fritz Lang
script	Fritz Lang Werner Jörg Lüddecke
production	CCC-Film ( Artur Brauner ) Rizzoli Film Régina SA
music	Gerhard Becker
camera	Richard fear
cut	Walter Wischniewsky
occupation
Debra Paget : temple dancer Seetha Paul Hubschmid : Engineer Harald Berger Claus Holm : Dr. Walter Rhode, Berger's boss Sabine Bethmann : Irene Rhode Walther Reyer : Prince Chandra René Deltgen : Prince Ramigani Jochen Brockmann : Prince Padhu Valéry Inkijinoff : High Priest Yama Richard Lauffen : Bhowana Jochen Blume : Asagara

The Indian Tomb is a feature film by Fritz Lang and the sequel to The Tiger of Eschnapur . It is based on the novel of the same name by Lang's ex-wife Thea von Harbou . It premiered on March 5, 1959 in Stuttgart, Universum.

action

Berger and Seetha are found by a caravan in the desert sand and brought to a village, but betrayed there and captured by Ramigani, who is looking for them on behalf of the reigning Prince Chandra. Ramigani makes Chandra believe that Berger is dead, and he gives Berger's sister Irene and her husband Dr. Rhode on.

The dancer has to submit to a divine judgment by dancing in front of a huge cobra, but is saved at the last moment by Chandra. He immediately announces his marriage to her. When Ramigani shows her the Berger he has held captive, she agrees and, at a secret meeting, is able to tell Irene that her brother is still alive.

This has meanwhile overpowered his executioner and freed himself. In the underground passages he finally meets Irene and Dr. Rhode, looking for him here. But the conspirators Ramigani and Prince Padhu also come with their troops through these corridors to overthrow Chandra.

During the wedding celebration of Chandra with Seetha, an overthrow occurs, which initially succeeds, but is then put down. Ramigani and Padhu are killed in the process. Chandra meets Berger, but spares him and lets him go with Seetha. He himself withdraws from royal life and becomes a student of a sadhus .

Others

The City Palace of Udaipur

The shooting took place in Udaipur and Jaipur . The (for the time) relatively revealing dance scene with Debra Paget was cut in the American film version. The German television premiere was on December 26, 1970 on ARD .

The US native Debra Paget was dubbed for the German theatrical version by Rosemarie Fendel , Paul Wagner lent his voice to Valéry Inkijinoff of Russian origin.

One of the first basketball sports halls in Greece in 1959, located below the east curve of the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium , is popularly known as the Tomb of the Indian based on the film by Fritz Lang .

See also

• The Indian tomb (1921)
• The Indian tomb (1938)

Reviews

The contemporary German film critics in particular sharply criticized the film and considered it unworthy of Fritz Lang.

• Die Welt (1959): “ Here lies Fritz Lang, once the creator of such weighty films as 'Metropolis' and 'M'. The 'Indian Tomb' is his own. "
• Enno Patalas , film review, 1959: “Lang's German comeback looks like that of a veteran who hasn't had a script in his hand for thirty years and hasn't seen a film: dramaturgical clumsiness, artistic indifference and bad taste are combined in him as only with Veit Harlan . "
• Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 403: "(...) exotic decorations and romantic romanticism determine the second part of" The Tiger of Eschnapur "(...)." (Rating: 2 stars = average)
• Heyne Filmlexikon (1995): "Adventure dozen items based on the novel by Thea von Harbou."

See also

• The Indian tomb (1921)
• The Indian tomb (1938)

literature

• Thea von Harbou : The Indian tomb. Novel . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, 173 pages, ISBN 3-596-22705-4
• Thea von Harbou: The Indian tomb. A fantastic audio book . Kassel: MEDIA Net-Kassel 2007, 6 CD-Audio, total playing time: 6 hours 24 minutes, ISBN 978-3-939988-01-4

Web links

• Audiobook The Indian Tomb. A fantastic audio book , ISBN 978-3-939988-01-4 MEDIA Net-Edition .
• The Indian Tomb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Indian tomb at Filmportal.de
• The Indian tomb at deutscher-tonfilm.de ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for the Indian tomb . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2005 (PDF; test number: 19 174 DVD).
2. ↑ Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium on stadia.grm
3. ↑ quoted from Claudius Seidl : The German Film of the 1950s , Heyne Filmbibliothek, 1987, p. 170.