1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.
Directed by Vladislav Kozlov
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Cast
Terry Moore
Lady in Black
Isabella Rossellini
Gabriella Guglielmi
Sherilyn Fenn
Madame Nazimova
Franco Nero
Valentino's Spirit
Paul Rodríguez
Alexander De Salm
Monte Markham
Dr. Mecker
Jeff DuJardin
Paul Hearts
Dalton Cyr
Rudolpho Guglielmi
Dunham Stewart
Young Rudolpho
Ksenia Jarova
Natacha Rambova
Stephen Nelson
Kazimir
Natalia Dar
Maid
Vladislav Kozlov
Rudolph Valentino
Suvi Honkanen
Winifred Hudnut
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