"Sumurun" or "One Arabian Knight" is a German black-and-white silent film from the year 1920, so this one will have its 100th anniversary soon. The director is Ernst Lubitsch and he also is credited as one of the writers (alongside his longtime collaborator Ernst Kräly) and he is also the lead actor in here. This film was obviously made a long time before Lubitsch's breakthrough in Hollywood and also quite a while before the Nazis took over. Lubitsch himself was still in his 20s at this point and still it is far from his first world as a filmmaker as he had already directed a whole lot of movies in the 5 years before that by 1920. There exist many German silent films that focus on different countries and cultures and this is just another as you already see from the sheikh on the film's poster. And also many other contents were nothing new at this point already: (unrequited) love, jealousy, foreign culture, competition and just generally dramatic situations from start to finish. I cannot say I enjoyed the watch a lot and for me the film dragged on several occasions during its almost 2 hours. Then again, I am not the greatest silent film in general. Thumbs down from me. Not recommended.
Review of Sumurun
