The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She...
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Paul Biensfeldt | ... |
Daimyo Tokuyawa
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O-Take-San
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Meinhart Maur | ... |
Prince Matahari
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Karan
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Erner Huebsch | ... |
Kin-Be-Araki
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Käte Küster | ... |
Hanake
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Niels Prien | ... |
Olaf J. Anderson
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Herta Heden | ... |
Eva
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Loni Nest | ... |
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Directed by
| Fritz Lang | ||
Written by
| David Belasco | ... | (play "Madame Butterfly") |
| Max Jungk | ... | (writer) |
| John Luther Long | ... | (play "Madame Butterfly") |
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| Erich Pommer | ... | producer |
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| Max Fassbender | ||
| Carl Hoffmann | ... | (unconfirmed) |
Production Design by
| Heinrich Umlauff | ||
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- Decla-Bioscop AG (1919) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (1920) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Kino Video (2012) (United States) (DVD) (on 'Fritz Lang: The Early Works')
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- Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Koblenz (film restoration) (1987)
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The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan 4 years later, he is accompanied by his European wife...
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired Giacomo Puccini's eponymous 1904 opera. See more » |