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The Tower of Silence
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The Tower of Silence

1925-01-29 · 94 min · ★ 6.8

Drama · Science Fiction

Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...

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Directors
Johannes Guter
Production companies
Decla Film Gesellschaft Holz & Co.
Countries
Germany
Status
Released

Top Cast

Xenia DesniXenia DesniEva
Nigel BarrieNigel BarrieArved Holl
Hanna RalphHanna RalphLiane
Fritz DeliusFritz DeliusWilfred Durian
Avrom MorewskiEldor Vartalun
Gustav ObergCeel
Hermann Leffler
Philipp Manning
Jenny JugoJenny Jugo
Heinrich GothoHeinrich Gotho

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