The Tower of Silence
Genres
Overview
Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in the town. But Durian's famous flight across the Australian desert was not all it seems... and when his 'dead' partner Arved Holl is rescued by Eva and comes to claim his former fiancée's hand, the whole house of cards is about to come tumbling down. Meanwhile, Eva's own family history is not quite as she had always believed...
Details
Budget
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Revenue
$0
Runtime
94 min
Release Date
1925-01-29
Status
Released
Original Language
German
Vote Count
2
Vote Average
6
Xenia Desni
Eva
Nigel Barrie
Arved Holl
Hanna Ralph
Liane
Fritz Delius
Wilfred Durian
Avrom Morewski
Eldor Vartalun
Gustav Oberg
Ceel
Hermann Leffler
Philipp Manning
Jenny Jugo
Heinrich Gotho
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