Maud Gregaards travels to China in search of a fabled treasure said to have belonged to the Queen of Sheba. Once there, she is taken captive by an evil man and nearly killed in the belief she is a witch.
Karl Figdor, Joe May, W. Böllinghoff, Richard Hutter, Ruth Goetz
Germany
Silent Screams in the Dragon's Den Beneath the cracked lacquer of Weimar Germany's collective psyche, Joe May unleashed Die Herrin der Welt (1919) - a serialized fever dream where colonial fantasy curdles into nightmare. This inaugural chapter, Die Freundin des gelben Mannes, positions Hedy Searle's Maud Gregaard...
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" Silent Screams in the Dragon's Den Beneath the cracked lacquer of Weimar Germany's collective psyche, Joe May unleashed Die Herrin der Welt (1919) - a serialized fever dream where colonial fantasy curdles into nightmare. This inaugural chapter, Die Freundin des gelben Mannes, positions Hedy Searle's Maud Gregaards as both predator and prey in a Darwinian game played across Canton's opium-stained docks. What begins as treasure hunt for Sheba's fabled artifacts metastasizes into something fa..."
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