Synopsis
Who was Mohammed Essad Bey? Or Kurban Said? Both names as well as his actual first name Lew mean LION. An early 20th century visionary who wanted to offer a bridge of understanding and respect between the Orient and the Occident , but who himself is hard to visualize.
Born in Caucasus as Lew Abramowitsch Nussimboum , a stateless Jew with Russian parents, his first of many homes was in Baku, Aserbeidjan, where his father was an oil magnate.
Under his pseudonyms he became a writer. His books were about rulers, dictators and religious leaders such as the Russian Czar, the Shah of Persia, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini as well as about the Prophet Muhammed.
In the 1920ies he converted to the Islam. His most famous novel is an Oriental Romeo and Juliet theme called "Ali & Nino", which was translated into a dozen languages.
Always “on the run” first from the Russian Bolshevists and then from the German Fascists he lived in many places amongst them Berlin, Vienna, Rome. He died in Positano, Italy only 37 years old.
This film is an adventurous search for the man who was called the LION.

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