Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.
Production
Massive sets that Germany built because actual India was inconvenient.
Acting
Conrad Veidt's eye acting could kill a man at fifty paces.
Director
Joe May
Olaf Fønss
Herbert Rowland
Mia May
Irene Amundsen, Rowland's Fiancée
Conrad Veidt
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Erna Morena
Princess Savitri
Bernhard Goetzke
Yogi Ramigani
Lya De Putti
Mirrjha, Savitri's Servant
Karl Platen
Rowland's Servant
Hermann Picha
Professor Leyden, an Orientalist
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Captain
Georg John
Penitent
Louis Brody
Black Servant
Max Adalbert
Maria Forescu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Fritz Lang's unrealized dream—he wrote the source novel but Joe May directed, sparking decades of auteurist grumbling.
The massive sets were later recycled for other films, including possibly The Thief of Bagdad—1920s Hollywood was basically a furniture swap meet.
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