
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set amid the turbulence of the Young Turk movement within the dying Ottoman Empire Abdul the Damned was among the first films directed in Britain by Karl Grune acclaimed director of 1923&s Die Strasse (The Street) who had fled Nazi Germany in 1933; the film also features starring roles for fellow German emigre & Pandora&s Box star Fritz Kortner Scottish screen idol John Stuart & Swedish silent-era heart-throb Nils Asther Turkey 1900 Sultan Abdul Hamid II becomes infatuated with Therese a young Viennese opera singer (Adrienne Ames) She is forced to give into him to protect her fiance Young Turk Talak Pasha; however the fervour of Talak&s popular opposition to the Sultan&s rule will eventually lead to his abdication