The Doll
7.4
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.
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Cast
10 people
Ossi Oswalda
Ossi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter / The Doll
Known for
I Don't Want to Be a Man
The Oyster Princess
Victor Janson
Hilarius, the Dollmaker
Known for
The Oyster Princess
I Don't Want to Be a Man
Hermann Thimig
Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew
Known for
The 3 Penny Opera
Max Kronert
Baron von Chanterelle
Known for
The Golem: How He Came into the World
The Oyster Princess
Marga Köhler
Frau Hilarius, The Dollmaker’s Wife
Also in
The Wildcat
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
Gerhard Ritterband
The Apprentice
Also in
Four Around the Woman
Ihr Kammerdiener
Jakob Tiedtke
The Prior
Also in
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
The Golem
Josefine Dora
Lancelot's Nanny
Also in
Cyanide
Last Stop
Paul Morgan
Hippolyt, the Baron's Servant
Also in
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Eerie Tales
Ernst Lubitsch
Director in Prologue (uncredited)
Also in
Sumurun
Where Is My Treasure?
Ernst Lubitsch Director · Hanns Kräly Writer E. T. A. Hoffmann Story
First release December 5, 1919 · Produced in Germany · Original title Die Puppe
Production
Projektions-AG Union
Production
Germany
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Die Puppe
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · December 5, 1919
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Switzerland
August 14, 2010 · Digital
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