The Doll (German: Die Puppe) is a 1919 German romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch.[1][2][3][4] The film is based on the operetta La poupée by Edmond Audran (1896) and a line of influence back through the Léo Delibes ballet Coppélia (1870) and ultimately to E. T. A. Hoffmann's short story "Der Sandmann" (1816).[5]
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 Theatrical poster to The Doll (1919) | |
| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
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| Produced by | Paul Davidson |
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| Distributed by | UFA |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
| Language | Silent film |
Plot summary
editLancelot is the nephew of the Baron, his uncle. The Baron is pressuring him to get married but Lancelot is afraid of women. He decides to fool his uncle by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
Cast
edit- Ossi Oswalda as Ossi / The Doll
- Victor Janson as Hilarius
- Hermann Thimig as Lancelot
- Max Kronert as Baron of Chanterelle
- Marga Kohler as Wife of Hilarius
- Gerhard Ritterband as The Apprentice
- Jakob Tiedtke as The Abbot
DVD releases
editThe film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set Lubitsch in Berlin (2007) with English intertitles. It was also released in the UK by Eureka's Masters of Cinema series as part of the box set Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies (2010) with German intertitles and English subtitles.
Notes
edit- ^ "Die Puppe" (TCM article)
- ^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
- ^ "Die Puppe(1919)". YouTube.
- ^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
- ^ Wosk, pp. 63–68.
Bibliography
edit- Wosk, Julie (2015). My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-6339-8.
External links
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