Directed by: | Fritz Lang. |
Written by: | Fritz Lang. |
Production company: | Decla-Film-Gesellschaft Holz & Co., Berlin. |
Executive Producer: | 1st part: Erich Pommer. |
Photography: | 1st part: Emil Schünemann; 2nd part: Karl Freund. |
Set design: | Hermann Warm, Otto Hunte, Carl Ludwig Kirmse, Heinrich Umlauff (Völkerkundliches Museum I.F.G. Umlauff, Hamburg). |
Cast: | Carl de Vogt (Kay Hoog), Ressel Orla (Lio Sha), Georg John (Dr. Telphas), Rudolph Lettinger (John Terry (in German) aka Terry Landon (in English)), Edgar Pauly (Four-Finger John); Only 1st part: Lil Dagover (Naela, the sun priestess), Paul Morgan (expert), Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne, Harry Frank; Only 2nd part: Thea Zander (Ellen, Terry's daughter), Reiner-Steiner (Captain), Friedrich Kühne (the Yogi), Meinhart Maur (Chinese), Paul Morgan (Jew), K.A. Römer, Gilda Langer, Paul Biensfeldt. |
Filmed at: | Lixie-Atelier, Berlin-Weißensee, Decla lot at Carl Hagenbeck's zoological garden, Hamburg-Stellingen. |
Released: | 1st part: 1919, October 03, Richard Oswald-Lichtspiele, Berlin; 2nd part: 1920, February 02. |
Versions: | 1st part: 1921 (Germany): censorship version (1900 m), 2nd part: 1920 (Germany): censorship version (2219 m), both parts: before 1976 (USA): Shepard version, restored by David Shepard from materials of the Czechoslovak and East German film archives, tinted with the co-operation of Fritz Lang. |
Musical versions: | 1996, Filmfest Hamburg (Germany): Aljoscha Zimmermann (piano). |
Prints: | Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde, Wiesbaden (Germany): 35 mm (1618 m / 2377 m), 16 mm (651 m / 961 m), Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum (Germany), Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA): tinted version with English intertitles, Theater Arts Library, Los Angeles (USA): 35 mm, Det Danske Film Museum, Kopenhagen (Denmark), Cinémathèque Française (France), Österreichisches Filmarchiv (Austria): Video. |
Script: | see Adaptions. |
Adaptions: | 1919: novel based on the film "Der goldene See", written by Fritz Lang, serialized in Film-Kurier (Berlin) from September 02, 1919 (1920 published as a book by Buch-Film-Verlag, Berlin; 1987 reprinted by Virgilio Iafrate, Munich). 1919: novel "Das Brillantenschiff", written by Fritz Lang, serialized in Film-Kurier (Berlin) from October 04, 1919 (1920 published as a book by Buch-Film-Verlag, Berlin; 1987 reprinted by Virgilio Iafrate, Munich). Since Lang wrote this novel before he made the second film, it's not an adaption but a pattern for the film). |
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