In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.
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Cast
12 people
Ève Francis
Sibilla
Known for
The French Detective
Jaque Catelain
Hedwick
Also in
The Inhuman Woman
The Man of the Sea
Marcelle Pradot
Iliana
Also in
The Late Mathias Pascal
Le Bercail
Philippe Hériat
Joao, le bouffon
Known for
Napoleon
Claire Prélia
La comtesse suédoise
Also in
The Gallery of Monsters
The Man of the Sea
Georges Paulais
Esteria
Known for
Gervaise
Édith Réal
Conception
Max Dhartigny
Le patron de l'El Dorado
Also in
The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
The Redemption of the Past
Émile Saint-Ober
L'aveugle
Also in
Une Femme a Passé
Night attack
Jeanne Bérangère
Flore
Also in
Max Linder's Appointment
Cleopatra
Michel Duran
Also in
Bad Seed
Night at the Crossroads
Noémi Seize
Also in
The Woman from Nowhere
Fièvre
Marcel L'Herbier Director · Georges Specht Cinematographer Georges Lucas Cinematographer
First release October 28, 1921 · Produced in France · Production Gaumont, Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
Production
Gaumont Série Pax
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Gaumont
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Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont
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France
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Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
France · October 28, 1921
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No release date listed for United States.
France
February 14, 2000 · Physical · DVD
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