Opisy(1)
Despotic Sultan Abdul Hamid commands his chief of police to undermine the Young Turks' rebels, ensuring their discredit and eventually the assassination of the Turks leader Hassan Bey.
Kortner co-authored the script (uncredited) and wrote a rewarding double role for himself: both as the Sultan and a third-class actor, who is supposed to act as the Sultan's double but fails miserably. The rumour spread among émigrés that Hitler had a doppelganger might have been the origin of the story – as it was for THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER later on; but despite a few elements of conventional cliché, ABDUL THE DAMNED unveils the falseness and cynicism of all power politics.
(Viennale)
Obsada
Fritz Kortner
Austro-Węgry
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