Ernst Lubitsch
Also Known As: Эрнст Любич, 에른스트 루비치
Biography: Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch". Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). While being escapist, his films often offer social commentary on human relationships and society in a satirical way. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 30, 1947
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The Pride of the Firm
Overview: 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 World War I that wasn’t lost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-04-30
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From Caligari to Hitler
Overview: 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.)
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-05-28
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Mr. Broadway
Overview: Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-12
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Sumurun
Overview: The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Robert and Bertram
Overview: Based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which has been turned into films on several occasions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-12
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Where Is My Treasure?
Overview: Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-02-25
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The Miracle
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-21
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Miss Bellboy
Overview: Miss Lo leaves finishing school and returns to her parents’ hotel “Zum Weißen Schwan”. One of the chambermaids eloped with the bellboy and now the daughter has to help out – sometimes as a maid, sometimes in the guise of a bellboy. When she falls in love with Lieutenant Clairon, her male disguise begins to stand in her way. At a ball she has to to look on helplessly while he’s flirting with other women. But with the help of her friend Röschen, who’s the cousin of Clairon, a happy ending is attained.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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Hitler: A Career
Overview: A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-07-08
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The Firm Gets Married
Overview: Directed by Carl Wilhelm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-01-02
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Der Blusenkönig
Overview: Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances. But the girl's father forbids him to flirt back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-02
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When Four Do the Same
Overview: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-11-16
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Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Overview: Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-06-09
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
Overview: A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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The Rosentopf Case
Overview: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-09-19
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Ninotchka
Overview: A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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The Eternal Jew
Overview: A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-11-28
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A Venetian Night
Overview: The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1914-04-15
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How I Was Murdered
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-12-01
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Sugar and Cinnamon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-05-28
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Blind Cow
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-05-28
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The New Nose
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-12-15
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A Trip on the Ice
Overview: Lost comedy film.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-05-21
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The Last Suit
Overview: Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-11-02
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The Bodybuilder
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Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-11-02
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The Mixed Ladies Chorus
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-06-21
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His Only Patient
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-07-31
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The Tenor, Inc.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-12-22
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Miss Soapsuds
Overview: Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first directorial work and is one of the director's lost works. With the outbreak of World War I , all the men, including the barbers , are drafted. As a result, the women have to take over their work, and so mother and daughter share the work in a barber's shop: the daughter soaps the customers, while the mother then more or less skilfully shaves the men. A customer named Ernst also wants to be shaved. He makes eyes at the daughter and is resolutely thrown out of the shop by his mother. Ernst flees with his great love in the car and is followed by his mother on foot and finally on a tricycle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-06-25
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The Most Beautiful Gift
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-11-24
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Prinz Sami
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Toboggan Cavalier
Overview: A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place. In a small village she falls in love with a young man, but her father disapproves of the match.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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Meyer from Berlin
Overview: Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he considers Tyrolean attire. However, he mistakenly travels to the Bavarian Alps rather than Austria. Meyer becomes infatuated with Kitty, a young, attractive woman at the hotel where he is staying. His pursuit of her angers many of her other suitors who are also staying at the hotel. In order to impress Kitty, Meyer agrees rather reluctantly to climb Mount Watzmann. While they are approaching the summit, both Meyer's wife and Kitty's fiancee unexepectedly arrive from Berlin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-01-17
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Käsekönig Holländer
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-03-01
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The Ideal Wife
Overview: The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins. They are annoyed by his teasing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-09-19
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Doctor Satanson
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-03-17
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Arme Maria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-05-07
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100 Years of the UFA
Overview: 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 German film industry.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-28
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Das Mirakel
Overview: 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 returns.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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