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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).
The Doll: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Max Kronert, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Marga Köhler. Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
- (2.4K)
- Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1920-04-06
Subtitled \"Four amusing acts from a toy box,\" The Doll embraces artificiality and self-awareness from the opening credits. Lubitsch himself opens the film, pulling pieces from a small chest to build a diorama in front of us, complete with a pair of dolls that he places inside a toy cottage.
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Victor Janson
In Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful silent comedy The Doll, we follow a young bachelor’s convalescence from acute gynophobia. Through the handling of a manageable simulacrum, he becomes capable of an actual embrace.
- (3.4K)
- Projektions-AG Union
- Ernst Lubitsch
The Doll movie (1919) review summary: Starring the hugely popular Ossi Oswalda, and having elements in common with movies as disparate as Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances and Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Ernst Lubitsch’s amusing comedy fantasy boasts some creative production design.
- Danny Fortune
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 puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
The Doll is a 1919 German romantic fantasy comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The film is loosely based on the same short story which inspired the ballet Coppélia and the operetta La poupée by Edmond Audran.
