The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King Samlak offers his daughter Makeda to the powerful Pharaoh Amenes in order to secure peace between the two countries. What was intended as a political move ends as a debacle. Instead of Makeda, Amenes chooses Samlak's beautiful slave girl Theonis. Nevertheless, Amenes can not secure the love of Theonis as she is in love with the young Egyptian Ramphis. Having suffered humiliation, the Ethiopians declare war on Egypt. Amenes is injured in a battle and perishes – but only seemingly. The happy union between Theonis and Ramphis is in peril when Pharaoh Amenes returns to claim his wife and his throne. —Anonymous
Genre: History
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Albert Bassermann, Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kühne, Harry Liedtke, Lyda Salmonova, Paul Biensfeldt, Paul Wegener
Country: Germany