TIGER OF ESCHINAPUR - DVD-FRITZ LANG

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: After more than two decades of exile in Hollywood, master filmmaker Fritz Lang triumphantly returned to his native Germany to direct this lavish two-part adventure tale from a story he had co-authored almost forty years earlier.; ; Western architect Harald Berger (Paul Hubschmid), called to India by Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur, falls in love with the beautiful temple dancer Seetha Debra Paget), although she is promised to the Maharajah. Their betrayal ignites the wrath of a vengeful Chandra, who is fighting his own battle for power with his scheming brother, and the lovers are forced to flee into the desert.; ; Featuring breathtaking location photography and cliff-hanging suspense, the first part of Lang's epic is highlighted by Paget's erotic temple dance and Hubschmid's battle to the death with a man-eating tiger.
• Cast: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Luciana Paluzzi, Valery Inkijinoff, Sabine Bethmann, Angela Portaluri, René Deltgen, Guido Celano, Jochen Brockmann, Richard Lauffen, Fritz Lang
• Director: Fritz Lang
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie