The Tower of Silence (film)

1925 film

The Tower of Silence

Directed by| Johannes Guter
Written by| Curt Johannes Braun
Produced by| Erich Pommer
Starring| Xenia Desni
Nigel Barrie
Fritz Delius
Avrom Morewski
Cinematography| Günther Rittau

Production
company

Universum Film AG

Release date

| 29 January 1925

Running time

| 100 minutes
Country| Weimar Republic
Languages| Silent
German intertitles

The Tower of Silence (German: Der Turm des Schweigens) is a 1925 German mystic melodrama directed by Johannes Guter and starring Xenia Desni and Nigel Barrie. The Tower of Silence is a silent film, and one of the few films by Guter to survive. In 2007, it became the director's first film to be restored for modern audiences.[1]

## Plot[edit]

The Tower of Silence centres around Eva (Xenia Desni), a beautiful woman kept in a high tower by her grieving widowed father. When an attractive explorer, Arved (Nigel Barrie), is saved by Eva after crashing his car near the tower, he introduces her into high society. When Arved, who was previously believed to be dead, discovers that he has lost his fiancée to ex-partner and aviator Wilfred, he must decide whether to reveal a secret that will destroy his old friend.

## Cast[edit]

* Xenia Desni as Eva
* Nigel Barrie as Arved Holl
* Fritz Delius as Wilfred Durian
* Avrom Morewski (Abraham Morewski) as Eldor Vartalun
* Gustav Oberg as Ceel
* Hanna Ralph as Liane
* Hermann Leffler as Mac Farland
* Philipp Manning as Werner Neuwitt
* Jenny Jugo as Evi

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Tower of Silence" (PDF). moma.org. Retrieved 4 December 2017.

## External links[edit]

* The Tower of Silence at IMDb
* The Tower of Silence at AllMovie

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Films directed by Johannes Guter

* The Diamond Foundation (1917)
* The Ghost Hunt (1918)
* Comrades (1919)
* Eternal River (1920)
* The Woman in Heaven (1920)
* The Tophar Mummy (1920)
* The Thirteen of Steel (1921)
* The Black Panther (1921)
* Circus of Life (1921)
* Murders in the Greenstreet (1921)
* The Call of Destiny (1922)
* Lust for Life (1922)
* Barmaid (1922)
* Princess Suwarin (1923)
* Leap Into Life (1924)
* Express Train of Love (1925)
* The Tower of Silence (1925)
* The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins (1925)
* The Boxer's Bride (1926)
* Two Under the Stars (1927)
* Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
* Grand Hotel (1927)
* At Ruedesheimer Castle There Is a Lime Tree (1928)
* Because I Love You (1928)
* The Blue Mouse (1928)
* Foolish Happiness (1929)
* Her Dark Secret (1929)
* Once You Give Away Your Heart (1929)
* The Wrong Husband (1931)
* The Triangle of Fire (1932)
* Miss Liselott (1934)
* Twelve Minutes After Midnight (1939)

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