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Shoe Palace Pinkus

191645 minGermany
Comedy

Synopsis

Expelled from school and unsuccessful in his first job, Sally Pinkus treats every setback as a reason to try another approach. Work in a shoe shop introduces opportunities to charm customers and advance beyond the role of an apprentice. His confidence and willingness to manipulate appearances help him turn retail service into the beginning of a business career.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German.
This copy runs
59:42
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Ernst Lubitsch · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Historical context

Lubitsch directs and plays Sally, the energetic young Berliner recurring in his early comedies. The shoe trade becomes a setting where ambition, flirtation and the performance of commercial expertise repeatedly overlap.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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  • Ernst Lubitsch — Unknown (George Grantham Bain collection); This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.33605 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Guido Herzfeld — Unknown, per original, uncropped upload.; This image has been extracted from another file · Public domain
  • Ossi Oswalda — Alexander Binder; https://www.flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo/4533465473/ · Public domain

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