Abdul the Damned (1935)

Directors

Karl Grune

Cast

Adrienne Ames, Fritz Kortner, John Stuart, Nils Asther

The story

Sultan Abdul Hamid II is the absolute ruler of the Ottoman Empire in 1908. That same year, the leader of the revolutionary CUP (Young Turks), Hilmi Pasha, returns from exile, threatening the Sultan's rule and the conservative opposition to the CUP. Seeking to please the old despot, the Osmanli chief of police assassinates the leader of the conservative opposition, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime in order to give the Sultan an excuse for arresting the CUP leadership.

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