105TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
DIE PUPPE - THE DOLL
1919
Director: ERNST LUBITSCH
OSSI OSWALDA, VICTOR JANSON
ALL SEATS $20.00
With live accompaniment by Jackie Beckey.
When Lancelot, the nephew of the Baron of Chanterelle, is told by his uncle that he must marry, he balks. He is not in the least bit interested in having little Lancelots running underfoot, and so when the Baron puts out a reward to local maidens to wed his nephew, the poor fellow flees! But then he gets an idea...in the forest lives a man whose mechanical dolls are so true to life they fool everyone. He'll marry one of them. But when the dollmaker's daughter falls for the timid Lancelot, she switches places with his doll of choice, with hilarious, and sexy, results. Ernst Lubitsch's THE DOLL (DIE PUPPE) is one of the funniest sex comedies ever made, a riotous look at love and marriage, and one of the director's most sophisticated films.
Presented in Partnership with Archives on Screen Twin Cities and Syncopated Silents
