Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Als ich tot war / Wo ist mein Schatz / Where Is My Treasure?


Ernst Lubitsch: Als ich tot war / Wo ist mein Schatz / Where Is My Treasure? (DE 1916) starring Ernst Lubitsch (husband, pouring coffee).

[As I Was Dead / Kun olin kuollut / När jag var död].
    DE © 1916 Projektions-AG Union. P: Paul Davidson. D+SC: Ernst Lubitsch. Starring Ernst Lubitsch (husband), Luise Scheurich (wife), Helene Voss (mother-in-law), Julius Falkenstein (rival).
    Transit Film / FWMS print of the film preserved by Slovenski Gledaliski in Filmski Muzei (Ljubljana)
    760 m /18 fps/ 37 min.
    E-subtitles by AA.
   Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 15 Jan 2008.

The earliest surviving film by Ernst Lubitsch is a charming farce where the chess-mad husband has to woo his wife back, repel the rival and scare off his mother-in-law disguised as a servant.

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