El Dorado

Release Date: 1921-10-28

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.6 / 10

Cast

Ève Francis

as Sibilla

Jaque Catelain

as Hedwick

Marcelle Pradot

as Iliana

Philippe Hériat

as Joao, le bouffon

Claire Prélia

as La comtesse suédoise