The Doll
1919 · 66 min
Comedy · Fantasy · Romance
★ 7.4The 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.
Crew
- Director Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer Hanns Kräly
- Writer Ernst Lubitsch
- Story E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Director of Photography Theodor Sparkuhl
- Director of Photography Kurt Waschneck
Cast
Ossi Oswalda
Ossi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter / The Doll
Victor Janson
Hilarius, the Dollmaker
Hermann Thimig
Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew
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Max Kronert
Baron von Chanterelle
Marga Köhler
Frau Hilarius, The Dollmaker’s Wife
Gerhard Ritterband
The Apprentice
Jakob Tiedtke
The Prior
Josefine Dora
Lancelot's Nanny
Paul Morgan
Hippolyt, the Baron's Servant
Ernst Lubitsch
Director in Prologue (uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Ernst Lubitsch
- Writer — Hanns Kräly
- Writer — Ernst Lubitsch
- Story — E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Director of Photography — Theodor Sparkuhl
- Director of Photography — Kurt Waschneck
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