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The Wildcat
GERMANY · 1921

The Wildcat

Ernst Lubitsch
military satire banditry and outlaws romantic comedy mistaken identity anarchic chaos
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Synopsis

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

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