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Kohlhiesels Töchter

192040 minGermany
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

An innkeeper refuses to let his cheerful younger daughter marry until her difficult older sister has found a husband. The suitor who wants the younger woman searches for a way around that condition. His friend's advice leads toward a scheme in which courtship, marriage and deliberately provoked hostility become instruments for changing the sisters' prospects.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs
60:19
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Inspirations

Lubitsch relocates the pattern of The Taming of the Shrew to a rural German comedy. Henny Porten plays both sisters, allowing contrasting behavior and costume to make two very different characters from the same performer.

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