When Four Do the Same

When Four Do the Same (German: Wenn vier dasselbe tun) is a 1917 German silent comedy drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings and Margarete Kupfer. Lubitsch himself plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter. The film was a key transitional work in Lubitsch's career, as he began to produce films with greater depth than his early light comedies.[2]

When Four Do the Same
Directed byErnst Lubitsch
Produced byPaul Davidson
Written byErich Schönfelder
Ernst Lubitsch
StarringOssi Oswalda
Emil Jannings
Margarete Kupfer
Fritz Schulz
Production
company
Release date
16 November 1917[1]
Running time
4 reels
CountryGermany
LanguageSilent
German intertitles

It premièred in Berlin on 16 November 1917 at the Union-Theatre am Nollendorfplatz and at the UT Kufürstendamm (Filmbühne Wien).[3]

Cast

References

  1. Eyman p.378
  2. Eyman p.50-51
  3. vier dasselbe tun.html "Wenn vier dasselbe tun (1917)". cinegraph.de. Retrieved 8 January 2017.

Bibliography

  • Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.


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