The Drums of Asia

The Drums of Asia
Directed by	Uwe Jens Krafft
Written by	Richard Arnold Bermann (novel) Karl Figdor
Starring	Rudolf Lettinger Käthe Haack Arnold Marlé
Cinematography	Franz Planer Otto Kanturek
Production company	Münchner Lichtspielkunst
Distributed by	Bavaria Film
Release date	25 January 1921 (1921-01-25)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Drums of Asia (German: Die Trommeln Asiens) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Uwe Jens Krafft and starring Rudolf Lettinger, Käthe Haack and Arnold Marlé.

It was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Reiber.

Cast

• Rudolf Lettinger as van Daalen
• Käthe Haack
• Arnold Marlé
• Hans Carl Mueller as Pastor Zurbinden
• Olga Biedermann
• Mary Thomas
• Heinrich Schroth as Hopkins
• Vladimir Agayev
• Erner Huebsch

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Kristin Thompson. Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

External links

• The Drums of Asia at IMDb