The Tophar mummy

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Movie
Original title The Tophar mummy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1920
length 64 minutes
Rod
Director Johannes Guter
script Fridel Koehne
production Rudolf Meinert
camera Willy Schwaebl
occupation

The Tophar Mummy is a German silent film from 1920 by Johannes Guter .

action

The plot of the dramatic story is only rudimentary. At the center of the action is a painter who, together with a hateful antiques dealer, draws up a cruel plan, at the center of which is the dancer Lola, the painter's lover, who is trapped in a mummy coffin .

Production notes

The Tophar mummy passed film censorship on October 7, 1920 and premiered on October 14, 1920.

Franz Seemann designed the film structures .

criticism

“An extremely effective film. (...) Particularly worth seeing are the scenes in the African milieu, which the director Dr. Johannes Guter are designed with a sure eye for the pictorial. "

- Cinematographic review of November 27, 1920. p. 17

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