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Release Date: 1959

Cast: René Deltgen, Valéry Inkijinoff, Jochen Brockmann, Paul Hubschmid, Debra Paget, Angela Portaluri, Sabine Bethmann, Claus Holm, Luciana Paluzzi, Walter Reyer, Guido Celano

Categories: Movies, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, Adventure Drama, Adventure

The Tiger of Eschnapur, or in original German, Der Tiger von Eschnapur, is a 1959 German adventure drama film directed by Fritz Lang. It is the first of two films comprising what has come to be known as Fritz Lang's Indian Epic; the other is The Indian Tomb (Das Indische Grabmal). Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct these films, which together tell the story of a German architect, the Indian Maharahaja for whom he is building a temple, and the Eurasian dancer who comes between them. Lang's Indian epic is based on work he did forty years earlier on a silent version of Das Indische... MORE

The Tiger of Eschnapur, or in original German, Der Tiger von Eschnapur, is a 1959 German adventure drama film directed by Fritz Lang. It is the first of two films comprising what has come to be known as Fritz Lang's Indian Epic; the other is The Indian Tomb (Das Indische Grabmal). Fritz Lang returned to Germany to direct these films, which together tell the story of a German architect, the Indian Maharahaja for whom he is building a temple, and the Eurasian dancer who comes between them. Lang's Indian epic is based on work he did forty years earlier on a silent version of Das Indische Grabmal. He and Thea von Harbou co-wrote the screenplay, basing it on von Harbou's novel of the same name. Lang was set to direct, but that job was taken from him and given to Joe May. Though Lang did not control the final form of that earlier version, it is one of his most revered films. Released in 1921, the original version of Das Indische Grabmal had a running time of 3⁄2 hours. For the remake, Lang divided the story into two parts that each run about 100 minutes, a length modern audiences can more easily accept. The tale begins when architect Harold Berger (Paul Hubschmid) arrives in India to LESS