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The Doll

Name: The Doll
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 1919
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Ossi Oswalda, Victor Janson, Hermann Thimig, Max Kronert, Marga Köhler

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.

1919 · Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · 66 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Romance · 9 frames

Crew

Written by: Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl, Kurt Waschneck
Produced by: Paul Davidson

Cast

Ossi Oswalda as Ossi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter / The Doll
Victor Janson as Hilarius, the Dollmaker
Hermann Thimig as Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew
Max Kronert as Baron von Chanterelle
Marga Köhler as Frau Hilarius, The Dollmaker’s Wife
Gerhard Ritterband as The Apprentice
Jakob Tiedtke as The Prior
Josefine Dora as Lancelot's Nanny
Paul Morgan as Hippolyt, the Baron's Servant
Ernst Lubitsch as Director in Prologue (uncredited)

Production

Country: Germany
Language: No Language
Studios: Projektions-AG Union
Themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.), romance, silent film

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