Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
1h 38m
Running Time
October 13, 1922Release Date
Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
1h 38m
Running Time
October 13, 1922Release Date
Plot.
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his mentally-ill son, she realizes through a metaphorical dream the scope of her negligence. Sentenced to prison for incitement to murder Harber, she sees herself as a parallel figure to Lea, Lot's wife in Sodom, where the Angel of the Lord warns the sinful citizens of the city of their impending doom. Lea oppresses the angel and eventually turns it over to the pagan priests when her sexual advances to it are rejected. In another dream sequence, Mary becomes the Queen of Syria, whose oppressed people turn against her and who, in turn, condemns a young man who loves her to death. Finally, her dream returns to the present time and when she awakens, she runs back to her former lover.
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Cast & Crew.
Georg Reimers
Mr. Jackson Harber
Victor Varconi
Priester des Lyzeums - Engel des Herrn
Lucy Doraine
Mary Conway / Das Weib des Lot / Lia, Königin von Syrien
Walter Slezak
Eduard Harber - Student am Cambridge-Lyzeum / Ein Goldschmied von Galiläa
Erika von Wagner
Mrs. Agathe Conway - Marys Mutter
Michael Curtiz
Director
Kurt Ehrle
Harry Lighton - Bildhauer / Lot
Ladislaus Vajda
Writer
Richard Berczeller
Lot
Alexander Kolowrat
Producer
Arnold Pressburger
Producer
Béla Balázs
extra
Kazimir Boyle
Composer
Bernd Schultheis
Composer
Willi Forst
extra
Edgar G. Ulmer
Production Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 13, 1922
Original NameSodom und Gomorrha
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Genres
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Wiki.
Sodom und Gomorrha: Die Legende von Sünde und Strafe ("Sodom and Gomorrah: The Legend of Sin and Punishment"; released in English as Sodom and Gomorrah or Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrha) is an Austrian silent epic film from 1922. It was shot on the Laaer Berg, Vienna, as the enormous backdrops specially designed and constructed for the film were too big for the Sievering Studios of the production company, Sascha-Film, in Sievering. The film is distinguished, not so much by the strands of its often opaque plot, as by its status as the largest and most expensive film production in Austrian film history. In the creation of the film between 3,000 and 14,000 performers, extras and crew were employed.