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THE DOLL (Die Puppe)
35mm Restoration by the F.W. Murnau Foundation
and the all-new feature-length documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin
Produced in Berlin in 1919, Ernst Lubitsch's THE DOLL (Die Puppe) is a charming romantic fantasy that shows the director already in full command of the now-legendary "Lubitsch touch."
Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows 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 puppet-maker's flesh-and-blood daughter, in disguise.
Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others), ERNST LUBITSCH IN BERLIN documents the life of the legendary filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his departure for Hollywood in 1923. The feature-length documentary is sprinkled with excerpts from Lubitsch's rarely-seen early work (both as actor and director) and offers fascinating insights into the German film industry in the silent era.
THE DOLL (Die Puppe)
Germany 1919 Color Tinted
64 Min. 1.33:1
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch
Technical Director: Kurt Waschneck
Photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl
With Hermann Thimig, Ossi Oswalda,
Victor Janson, Gerhard Ritterband
Copyright 1919 Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
English edition © 2007 Kino International Corp.
ERNST LUBITSCH IN BERLIN
Germany 2006 Color/B&W
109 Min. 1.85:1
Written and Directed by Robert Fischer
Produced by Loy W. Arnold
Copyright 2006 Transit Film GmbH
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