Stars Over Colombo

Stars Over Colombo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 17, 1953

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Adventure

Original Title

Sterne über Colombo

Production Companies

Gloria Film, Divina-Film

Director

Veit Harlan

Description

Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah falls in love with the circus rider and quickly sends the entire circus to Ceylon, where he courts Yrida. But Yrida loves someone else: the student Gowaran, who she does not know is the maharajah's son. In order to get Yrida completely under his control, the maharaja has her drugged and abducted to his castle in India.