The Doll

Dec 5, 1919

1h 6m

★ 7.4

Overview

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 puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Fantasy

Production Companies

Projektions-AG Union

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Cast

Ossi / The Doll

Ossi Oswalda

Lancelot

Hermann Thimig

Hilarius

Victor Janson

Lancelot's Housekeeper

Josefine Dora

Wife of Hilarius

Marga Köhler

Baron of Chanterelle

Max Kronert

The Apprentice

Gerhard Ritterband

The Abbott

Jakob Tiedtke

Hippolyt, Diener des Barons

Paul Morgan

Lancelots Kindermädchen

Josefine Dora

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