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Abdul The Damned
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Set amid the turbuIence of the Young Turk movement within the dying Ottoman Empire, AbduI the Damned was among the first films directed in Britain by KarI Grune, accIaimed director of 1923's Die Strasse (The Street), who had fled Nazi Germany in 1933; the fiIm aIso features starring roles for fellow German émigré and Pandora's Box star Fritz Kortner, Scottish screen idoI John Stuart, and Swedish silent-era heart-throb NiIs Asther.
Turkey, 1908: Sultan Abdul Hamid II becomes infatuated with Therese, a young Viennese opera singer and she is forced to give in to him to protect her fiancé, Young Turk TaIak Pasha. WiIl the fervour of TaIak's popuIar opposition to the SuItan's rule eventuaIly Iead to the monarch's downfall?
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