The Moon of Israel

The Moon of Israel German Die Sklavenknigin , or The Queen of the Slaves is a 1924 Austrian epic film.

In about the year 1230 BC the Israelites are in slavery in Egypt. At this difficult time the Jewish slavegirl Merapi falls in love with Prince Seti, son of the Pharaoh Menapta. This socially inappropriate love leads to numerous problems, which can nevertheless be resolved. At the end of the film Moses leads his people through the Red Sea and into freedom.One of the most outstanding scenes is the parting of the Red Sea by Moses Hans Marr. Since at the same time the American film The Ten Commandments was being made, which also featured the parting of the Red Sea, the Viennese team took extraordinary care over this scene out of fear of superior American special effects technology. In the final version, thanks to subsequent trick editing, the gigantic wooden construction, designed to release 100 cubic metres of water from both sides at once, is unrecognisable. The water poured into a closed wooden troughmetres square andmetre deep on the Laaer Berg in Vienna. The walls of water to either side were modelled out of plaster, which looked completely realistic on blackandwhite film. One single take could now depict both the parting and the closing of the sea for the former the shot was simply spliced into the film in reverse. ........

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