The original femme fatale seduced audiences before "femme fatale" was even a phrase.
In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.
Acting
Silent film theatrics—eyebrows used as entire dialogue.
Direction
Turqui and Doria compress opera into pure cinematic sin.
Director
Augusto Turqui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates the famous 1915 Cecil B. DeMille version and proves Carmen was already cinema's favorite dangerous woman before Hollywood claimed her.
Multiple 1914 Carmen films competed for audiences—this Turqui-Doria version is the Italian entry in what became an accidental international remake battle.
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