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The Marriage Circle

192485 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

Mizzi flirts with her friend's husband while her own husband quietly hopes to find grounds for divorce. The innocent and the calculating alike become caught in a network of jealousy, private detection and misleading appearances. In Lubitsch's Vienna, a taxi ride or a misplaced suspicion can disturb several marriages at once.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
85:02
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Cast

DirectorsErnst Lubitsch

Inspirations

Paul Bern adapted Lothar Schmidt's play Only a Dream for Lubitsch's comedy. The director later returned to the material in the sound film One Hour with You.

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