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Sumurun
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

One of a series of historical epics that the young German director Ernst Lubitsch concocted for star Pola Negri--a series that eventually landed Hollywood contracts for both. This 1920 film is an adaptation of Max Reinhardt's stage production Sumurun, with Negri as an ambitious dancing girl courted by a lascivious sheikh and the pathetic hunchback (played by Lubitsch himself) who is the leader of her troupe. 75 min.

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