The Doll (1919)

1919 · Silent film · 65 min · dir. Ernst Lubitsch

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Romance

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Synopsis

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

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Details

Director

Ernst Lubitsch

Writer

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Cinematography

Theodor Sparkuhl

Studio

Projektions-AG Union

Released

1919-12-05

Original title

Die Puppe

Running time

65 minutes

Language

German

Cast & crew

• Ernst Lubitsch Director
• Ossi Oswalda
• Victor Janson
• Hermann Thimig
• MMax Kronert
• Marga Köhler
• Gerhard Ritterband
• Jakob Tiedtke
• Josefine Dora

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