Carmen

Summary

While the dragoon José Navarro is visiting his mother and his bride in the countryside, he receives a message from his superior ordering him to return to Seville. The reason: José is to be promoted. Full of joy, he sets off.

When he arrives in Seville, he meets the beautiful gypsy Carmen, who works in a cigarette factory. When a brawl breaks out among the workers, Carmen is arrested as the instigator. But the good-natured dragoon José succumbs to the woman's protestations of love and helps her escape. As punishment, the recently promoted José is demoted to the rank of common soldier and forced to stand guard on the streets of the city. Here he is once again bewitched by Carmen, who in reality only wants to distract him so that a gang of smugglers can pass through undisturbed. When José kills an officer in a duel, he joins Carmen's gang. Eventually, she becomes the victim of José's jealousy: When she turns to a bullfighter in Gibraltar, he stabs her with a dagger in front of the bullring.