When Four Do the Same

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When Four Do the Same
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
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Produced by Paul Davidson
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Release date
16 November 1917 [1]
Running time
4 reels
CountryGermany
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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]

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

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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.

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