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El Dorado

El Dorado

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 28, 1921

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama

User Score

66%

Original Title

El Dorado

Production Companies

Gaumont Série Pax, Gaumont

Director

Marcel L'Herbier

Description

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.