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Die Puppe
(The Doll)
(1919) German
B&W : Five reels / 4511 feet
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Ossi Oswalda [Ossi, the dollmaker’s daughter], Herman Thimig [Lanzelot], Victor Janson [Hilarius, the dollmaker], Marga Köhler [his wife], Max Kronert [Baron of Chanterelle], Gerhard Ritterband [apprentice], Josephine Dora [Lanzelot’s housekeeper], Jakob Tiedtke [abbot], Paul Morgan, Lapitski

[?] Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU]? production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Scenario by Hanns Kräly + [Ernst Lubitsch], from a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Set design by Kurt Richter. Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl and Kurt Waschneck. / Released 5 December 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama: Fantasy.

Survival Status: Print exists in the Deutsches Filminstitut film archive.

Listing updated: 18 October 2007.

References: Fell-History p. 119; Hake-Lubitsch p. 113; Shipman-Cinema p. 68; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 321 : ClasIm-305 p. ? : Website-IMDb.

Home Video: DVD.

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