In Abwandlung von George Bizets populärer Oper erzählt Lubitschs Stummfilm die tragische Geschichte von Don José, einem spanischen Kavalleristen. Er gerät in den Bann einer Angehörigen der Sinti und Roma, Carmen, die ihn mit Liebe und Verachtung zugleich behandelt.

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch

1920 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch

1920 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch