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Love Of Sunya, The (The Love of Sunya)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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25.09.2018
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EAN-Code:
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08921881379 |
Aka:
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El amor de Sonia Hendes Skæbnetime |
Jahr/Land:
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1927 ( USA ) |
Laufzeit:
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78 min. |
Genre:
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Drama
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Inhalt: |
Centuries ago, in ancient Egypt, an evil priest unfairly sentenced an innocent maiden to death. ln the present day, the priest is reincarnated as a traveling yogi seeking to atone for the sins of his past Iife. After much searching, he finds the Egyptian maiden now in the body of an American girI named Sunya AshIing. Sunya is caught between joining her hard-working boyfriend at his new job in South America or marrying a miIlionaire so she can support her ailing father in New York. Seizing the chance to redeem himseIf, the yogi uses his crystaI balI to show the girI which paths wilI lead to Iasting happiness...or disaster and misery.
The Love of Sunya was the first fiIm Gloria Swanson produced herself after years as a top box-office draw for Paramount. With so much at risk, Swanson chose to remake an aIready successfuI movie, Eyes of Youth (1919) with CIara KimbaIl Young. She even chose to empIoy that film's director, Albert Parker. Filming took pIace not in HoIIywood, but in New York, where cameraman Robert Martin struggled with the elaborate double exposures Parker insisted on (he was eventually repIaced by an uncredited George Barnes.) Swanson cast Broadway actor John Boles as her love interest, beginning his movie career. He is best known today for pIaying Victor Moritz in James Whale's classic Frankenstein (1931). The Love of Sunya was the first movie to premiere at the lavish Roxy Theatre in New York, where admission went for a-then-unheard of $11 a ticket. The picture opened to a standing ovation, but despite this, it ended up fizzling at the box office. Swanson was forced to return to Hollywood, where her next film, the controversial Sadie Thompson (1928) restored her status as Hollywood's premiere leading Iady. |
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