Richard Eichberg — Director (7)

Movie

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1938)
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other title: Der Tiger von Eschnapur / Le tigre du Bengale …
After a passionate affair in Paris, adventurer Sascha Demidoff can no longer forget Sitha, the beautiful Maharani of Eshanpur. He travels through the wilderness of India to the maharaja's palace, where Sitha still returns his passion. But when his connection to her becomes apparent, he finds himself exposed to the revenge of the deceived maharaja. It is only with Sitha's help that he narrowly escapes from a ravenous tiger in the predator courtyard and flees with her from the palace to Berlin. Meanwhile, the architect Fürbringer is waiting for a message from Eschnapur, where he has been promised the construction of several large buildings. However, Fürbringer's friend and first draughtsman Sperling returns from India without having achieved anything. When Fürbringer's fiancée, Irene Traven, discovers that the maharajah is in Berlin incognito, she gains access to him and manages to get the prince to award her fiancé the building contract...

Movie

Song (1928)
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Richard Eichberg actor: 黄柳霜 / Heinrich George …
other title: 爱比刀更利 / Song. Die Liebe eines armen Menschenkindes …
在荷里活演了多年「中國娃娃」,黃柳霜遠走歐洲,力圖另闖一番事業。她與德國導演李察‧艾堡合作了一系列電影,《愛比刀更利》為第一部。黃飾演一名馬來亞舞孃,遭人調戲時得到一雜技飛刀手相救,二人合組情侶檔演出,但飛刀手舊情人突然出現。飛刀手為求與舊情人復合,計劃鋌而走險打劫火車。另一邊廂,經理人對舞孃又有意思,威迫她在兩人間作出選擇,交織成糾纏不清的愛恨四角。黃柳霜出色的演出使歐洲觀眾為之驚艷,並為她帶來了演出更立體角色的機會。恩尼‧哥柏斯現場音樂伴奏。鳴謝英國電影學院借出拷貝。

Movie

City Butterfly (1929)
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other title: 城中蝶 / Großstadtschmetterling …
In this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.