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The Tower of Silence

Der Turm des Schweigens

1925·94 min·DE
Director: Johannes Guter
DramaScience Fiction

Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

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Cast

Xenia Desni

Xenia Desni

Eva

Nigel Barrie

Nigel Barrie

Arved Holl

Hanna Ralph

Hanna Ralph

Liane

Fritz Delius

Fritz Delius

Wilfred Durian

A

Avrom Morewski

Eldor Vartalun

G

Gustav Oberg

Ceel

H

Hermann Leffler

P

Philipp Manning

Jenny Jugo

Jenny Jugo

H

Heinrich Gotho

Crew

Curt J. Braun

writer

Günther Rittau

cinematographer

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