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Die Tophar-Mumie (1920)

76 min · Drama

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Directors

Johannes Guter

Cast

Joseph Klein, Friedrich Kühne, Albert Bennefeld, Ellen Bargi, Emil Heyse, Paul Mederow, Rudolf Hofbauer

A dancer trapped in a mummy sarcophagus becomes the focus of a cruel scheme devised by her runaway lover and an antiques dealer.

The story

Lola, a dancer, is trapped in a mummy sarcophagus. She is the runaway lover of a painter and adventurer, who is consumed by hatred and joins forces with an antiques dealer to devise a cruel plan. The available plot description presents this as the dramatic story’s central conflict, but does not explain what the plan involves or how events unfold.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

A girl is embalmed and sold to lovers. (GECD #43083) At the center of the dramatic story is Lola, a dancer trapped in a mummy sarcophagus, the runaway lover of a painter and adventurer who, consumed by hatred and working together with an antiques dealer, devises a cruel plan … The plot is described in detail in the program booklet that Decla-Bioscop issued for The Tophar Mummy in 1920.

Genres

Drama

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