El Dorado

Year: 1921

Runtime: 98 mins

Director: Marcel L’Herbier

Drama

In Granada, Sibilla dances at the cabaret El Dorado, earning just enough for her sick child. Her child's father, Estimia, refuses aid, fearing harm to his daughter Iliana’s arranged marriage to a wealthy noble. Iliana flees the ceremony to meet Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla blackmails Estimia by locking the lovers overnight in the Alhambra.

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