A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Ossi Oswalda (center). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Ossi Oswalda [Ossi, the dollmaker’s daughter], Herman Thimig [Lanzelot, the baron’s nephew], Viktor Janson [Hilarius, the dollmaker], Marga Köhler [his wife], Max Kronert [Baron von Chanterelle], Gerhard Ritterband [the apprentice], Josephine Dora [Lanzelot’s housekeeper], Jakob Tiedtke [the prior], Paul Morgan, Lapitski

[?] Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU]? production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Scenario by Hanns Kräly, from a screen story by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch [?] and/or E.T.A. Hoffmann? Set design by Kurt Richter. Technical direction by Kurt Waschneck. Cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. / Released 5 December 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Fantasy.

Survival status: Print exists in the Deutsches Filminstitut film archive.

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 28 September 2013.

References: Film viewing : Fell-History p. 119; Hake-Lubitsch p. 113; Shipman-Cinema p. 68; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 321 : ClasIm-305 p. ? : Website-IMDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.