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Overview
Das Indische Grabmal is a French-Italian adventure film first released in 1959,
directed by Fritz Lang.
The film is based on a novel by Thea von Harbou and stars Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm and Valéry Inkijinoff.
It has also been released under the title: The Indian Tomb.
Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.
Synopsis
Fleeing from Chandra, the Maharajah of Eschnapur, architect Harald Berger and his lover
Seetha lose their way in the desert. Death seems assured, but they are discovered
by a party of passing travellers. Recaptured by Chandra’s men, Berger is imprisoned
and Seetha coerced into marrying Chandra. Meanwhile, Chandra’s real enemy, his ambitious
brother, is about to seize the throne...
Film Review
Das Indische Grabmal is the dreary sequel to
Der
Tiger von Eschnapur, Fritz Lang’s misguided and flawed excursion into the exotic
adventure genre. Although the films were popular in Germany when they were released,
they now come across as absurd and tedious, memorable only for their risibly bad action
scenes that are played with virtually no conviction and an almost total lack of realism.
Whilst the pedestrian storyline is undoubtedly the film’s weakest point, you can’t help
cringing at some atrocious acting and kitsch sets that look too obviously like painted
polystyrene. Only in a few sequences (notably the impressive but all too brief location
scenes) do we get a glimpse of the great cineaste that Friz Lang was in earlier years.
After this spectacle of the absurd, Lang managed to partly redeem himself in his final
film, the cult classic Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse.
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