GERMANY · 1919

The Doll

Ernst Lubitsch
marriage of convenience disguise and deception wealth and inheritance artificial vs. real romantic comedy
Synopsis

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

Year1919
CountryGermany
DirectorErnst Lubitsch
The Doll poster

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