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Sumurun
Sumurun (a.k.a. "One Arabian Night") is a 1920 German silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch based on a pantomime by Friedrich Freksa.
Plot.
A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Janaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Janaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The Slave Trader Achmed wants to sell Janaia to the Sheik for his harem. At the Palace, the Sheik finds out that his favourite, Sumurun, is
was appointed as researcher at the University of Perugia in German literature.
Tribute.
On 18 November 2015, the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin inaugurated a memorial at Friedrichstraße 107 dedicated to the theatre's founders, Max Reinhardt, Hans Poelzig and Erik Charell.
Work on Broadway.
- "Sumurun" (pantomime) (1912) - leader of the Deutsches Theater of Berlin on a New York tour
- "The Miracle" (1924) - Co-playwright and Director
- "A Midsummer Night