Caravan of Death

Caravan of Death

Drama | Nov. 16, 1920

Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost. The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.

Caravan of Death

Drama | Nov. 16, 1920

Caravan of Death
Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost. The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.
Producers
Original title Die Todeskarawane
Directors Josef Stein
Writers Marie Luise Droop, Erwin Baron, Karl May

Cast

Carl de Vogt

as Kara Ben Nemsi

Meinhart Maur

as Hadschi Halef Omar

Erwin Baron

as Omram

Gustav Kirchberg

as Hassan Ardschir Mirza

Dora Gerson

as Dschana Ardschir Mirza

Cläre Lotto

as Benda Ardschir Mirza

Maximilian Werrak

as Tschaschefsky

Karl Kuszar

as Kepek

Erna Felsneck

as Amina

Anna von Palen

as Marah Durimeh

Beate Herwigh

as Hafsa

Bela Lugosi

as Scheik

Arthur Kraußneck

as Tschaschefsky