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Romeo and Juliet in the Snow

192045 minGermany
ComedyRomance
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs
46:04
Subtitles
English

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Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

Subtitles: Wikimedia Commons · Open Classic Cinema

Synopsis

Two feuding village families make life difficult for a young couple who want to marry. Julia is promised to another suitor, while Romeo must find ways around the elders' hostility. Snowball battles, legal quarrels and a masquerade turn the lovers' predicament into a rural comedy, with the familiar outlines of Shakespeare's tragedy repeatedly redirected toward farce.

Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Inspirations

Lubitsch relocates Romeo and Juliet to a German village and gives the rival households comic variations on the Capulet and Montague names. The adaptation treats family pride and romantic desperation with deliberate irreverence.

Sources and availability

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Wikipedia — film referenceWikidata — film identity and creditsLa Cinémathèque française — Roméo et Juliette dans la neige

Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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  • Lotte Neumann — Alexander Binder; https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/4547992218/ This image is a movie star postcard published by Ross Verlag in Berlin . This is image nr. 276/6 from their series. It was published ca. 1919–1924. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. In particular, Ross images are in the public domain in Germany only if it can be shown that the photographer (usually mentioned on the image itself) has died more than 70 years ago. Ross images that are in the public domain in Germany may still be copyrighted in the United States if they were first published later than 1930 and were still copyrighted in Germany on January 1, 1996 (i.e. if the photographer died in 1926 or later). · Public domain
  • Julius Falkenstein — Alexander Binder; Transfer from German Wikipedia · Public domain
  • Gustav von Wangenheim — Unknown photographer and publisher - reverse is blank apart from message and 1922 postmark · Public domain

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