The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) on Netflix
NR19591h 41mAdventureDramaRomance
Maharajah Chandra hires the architect Harald Berger to build schools and hospitals in India. On the way he rescues the temple dancer Seetha from a tiger. Chandra wants Seetha for himself.
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Plot summary
The architect Harald Berger is hired by Maharajah Chandra to travel to India and build schools and hospitals there. On the road to Eschnapur, Berger pulls the temple dancer Seetha from a tiger's attack, and the two begin to fall in love. Seetha plays a melody from her childhood, and Berger hears an old Irish tune in it, so he thinks her father may have been European; she barely remembers the man but still feels Indian. After Chandra watches Seetha dance at a temple ceremony, he becomes infatuated and decides to marry her, hoping kindness will win her affection. His courtiers, among them his older brother, fear the marriage would give his enemies a reason to topple his reign.
Cast
- Jochen Blumeas Asagara - the Engineer
- Helmut Hildebrandas Ramigani's Servant
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
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- Fritz Lang won permission from the Maharana of Udaipur to shoot at Indian locations normally barred to Western film crews, among them the floating Lake Palace seen much later in Octopussy.
- Fritz Lang co-wrote a silent Das Indische Grabmal with Thea von Harbou forty years earlier, but the directing job was taken from him and given to Joe May, and he lost control of that version, which flopped at the time.
- American International Pictures cut the two films into a single 95-minute US feature, Journey to the Lost City, with Seetha's dance scenes heavily trimmed by the Hays Office.
