Overview
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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Based on
Based on La poupée
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ernst LubitschWriter
- E. T. A. HoffmannStory
- Hanns KrälyWriter
- Original title
- Die Puppe
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 5, 1919
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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Cast
Ossi OswaldaOssi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter / The Doll
Victor JansonHilarius, the Dollmaker
Hermann ThimigLancelot, the Baron’s Nephew- Max KronertBaron von Chanterelle
Marga KöhlerFrau Hilarius, The Dollmaker’s Wife
Gerhard RitterbandThe Apprentice
Jakob TiedtkeThe Prior
Josefine DoraLancelot's Nanny
Paul MorganHippolyt, the Baron's Servant
Ernst LubitschDirector in Prologue (uncredited)
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