Carmen (1918 film) - Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - Full Movie

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.

Carmen is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, and Leopold von Ledebur. It was based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. Like Bizet's opera Carmen, this film only adapts the third part of Mérimée's novella and transforms the character of Don José at the beginning of the story from bandit on the run to honest man in love with his childhood sweetheart. The film was released with English intertitles in the United States in 1921 under the alternative title Gypsy Blood.

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Written by: Prosper Mérimée (novel), Grete Diercks, Norbert Falk, Hanns Kräly, Myron M. Stearns (English version)
Produced by: Paul Davidson
Starring: Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Leopold von Ledebur, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Cinematography: Alfred Hansen
Production companies: PAGU, UFA
Distributed by: UFA (Germany), First National Pictures (US)
Release date: 17 December 1918
Running time: 80 minutes
Country: Germany
Languages: Silent, German intertitles