The Doll (1919 film)
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]
| Die Puppe | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Theatrical poster to The Doll (1919) | |
| Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Produced by | Paul Davidson |
| Written by | Screenplay: Hanns Kräly Ernst Lubitsch Operetta: La poupée by Edmond Audran Maurice Ordonneau Alfred Maria Willner Story: E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| Starring | Ossi Oswalda Hermann Thimig Victor Janson |
| Cinematography | Theodor Sparkuhl Kurt Waschneck |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | UFA |
Release date | 5 December 1919 |
Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | Weimar Republic |
| Language | Silent film |
Cast
- 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
The 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
- "Die Puppe" (TCM article)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyB6dZZkbtk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmAaO5i7DnE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLbCR_tmqWA
- Julie Wosk, My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015), 63-68.
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