Summary
Under the bruised saffron dusk of a studio-built Thebes, a Bavarian dancer with kohl-lashed eyes is dragged through reed marshes into the sandstone bowel of a temple whose walls sweat centuries of unspoken blasphemy; inside, Emil Jannings—part-priest, part-tomb-robber—ritualistically unwraps her autonomy as though it were another linen shroud, sealing her inside frescoed shadows where scarabs scuttle across fractured lotus murals. Months later, freighted across imperial sea-lanes like looted antiquity herself, Pola Negri’s gaunt heroine surfaces amid London’s fog-choked salons, only to discover that the captor’s gaze has stowed away inside her pupils: every mirror spits back the temple’s torchlight, every gaslamp flicker rekindles the narcotic incense of her imprisonment. What follows is not a chase but a possession, a slow osmosis of geographies until the Thames embankment and the Nile bank share the same breath, and rescue becomes merely the prologue to a more exquisite incarceration of memory.
Synopsis
A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.
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