Movies: Ernst Lubitsch

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)...

Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from Wor...

Directed by Carl Wilhelm....

Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice. A lost film....

In The the film, Ernst Lubitsch plays Sally, the clever assistant to the detective Ceeps, who only succeeds in solving the Rosentopf case after some effort in the police farce. Partly lost....

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must de...

This time, Lubitsch plays a tailor's assistant who exploits his striking resemblance to a customer to appear as a gentleman for once. To do so, he needs the eponymous fine suit - the one that the customer, a bruised lover, has given him to iron. The ...

In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne....

When clerk Phineas V. Lambert receives his check in the mail, he shows little emotion. (Originally appeared as a segment of the film "If I Had a Million", but was later presented separately as a short film.)...

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The burlesque is about a man who calls himself Käsekönig Holländer and rises to become cheese emperor in the course of the film. A lost film....

The main character is appointed conductor of a mixed women's choir. However, it soon becomes apparent that the singers are no longer interested in singing but rather in their new conductor. Only with difficulty and cunning does the conductor manage t...

A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg....

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades a...

A skinny couch potato buys a tonic that gives him unexpected strength. Thanks to his new strength, he breaks open the floor of his room, falls to the ground and lands in Africa. He later gets rid of his unloved mother-in-law and ends up with his wife...

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble....

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the Germ...

The mother wants to prevent her daughter from marrying a man she doesn't like at all costs, even becoming engaged to her daughter's boyfriend. However, she is outwitted by the couple, who eventually get together. A lost film....

When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and takes place of Megildis, who makes her way through the world and its many vicissitudes....

Film version of Max Reinhardt's play, presented in London in 1911. According to medieval legend, a nun leaves her convent to follow a knight. While she's away, the statue of the Virgin Mary miraculously takes her place, protecting her honor until she...