
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). While being escapist, his films often offer social commentary on human relationships and society in a satirical way.
Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.435 |
Birthday | 1892-01-28 |
Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
Also Known As | Эрнст Любич, 에른스트 루비치, |

1914

The Pride of the Firm
6.5/3
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and...
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The Pride of the Firm

2015

From Caligari to Hitler
7.4/24
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into...
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From Caligari to Hitler

1933

Mr. Broadway
0/0
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
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Mr. Broadway

1920

Sumurun
6/28
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a travelin...
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Sumurun

1915

Robert and Bertram
0/0
Based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which has been turned into films on several occ...
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Robert and Bertram

1916

Where Is My Treasure?
6.3/18
Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.
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Where Is My Treasure?

1912

The Miracle
5.5/2
When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and takes place of Megildis, who makes her...
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The Miracle

1915

Miss Bellboy
0/0
Miss Lo leaves finishing school and returns to her parents’ hotel “Zum Weißen Schwan”. One of the chambermaids eloped with the bellboy and now the dau...
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Miss Bellboy

1977

Hitler: A Career
7.4/77
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of ma...
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Hitler: A Career

1914

The Firm Gets Married
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Directed by Carl Wilhelm.
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The Firm Gets Married

1917

Der Blusenkönig
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Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances. But the girl's fath...
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Der Blusenkönig

1917

When Four Do the Same
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
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When Four Do the Same

1916

Pinkus's Shoe Palace
5.7/16
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying...
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Pinkus's Shoe Palace

1917

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
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A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

1918

The Rosentopf Case
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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The Rosentopf Case

1939

Ninotchka
7.506/389
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Ninotchka

1940

The Eternal Jew
4.532/47
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...
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The Eternal Jew

1914

A Venetian Night
6/2
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello direct...
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A Venetian Night

1915

How I Was Murdered
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How I Was Murdered

1915

Miss Soapsuds
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Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first directorial work and is one of the direct...
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Miss Soapsuds

1915

Sugar and Cinnamon
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Sugar and Cinnamon

1915

A Trip on the Ice
10/1
Lost comedy film.
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A Trip on the Ice

1915

Blind Cow
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Blind Cow

1915

The Last Suit
0/0
Lost film.
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The Last Suit

1915

The Bodybuilder
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The Bodybuilder

1916

The Mixed Ladies Chorus
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The Mixed Ladies Chorus

1916

The Tenor, Inc.
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The Tenor, Inc.

1916

The New Nose
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The New Nose

1916

The Most Beautiful Gift
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The Most Beautiful Gift

1915

His Only Patient
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His Only Patient

1918

Prinz Sami
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Prinz Sami

1918

The Toboggan Cavalier
0/0
A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place. In a small village she falls in love...
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The Toboggan Cavalier

1919

Meyer from Berlin
6/7
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in...
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Meyer from Berlin

1919

Käsekönig Holländer
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Käsekönig Holländer

1913

The Ideal Wife
5/1
The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins. They are annoyed by his teasing.
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The Ideal Wife

1916

Doctor Satanson
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Doctor Satanson

1915

Arme Maria
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Arme Maria

2017

100 Years of the UFA
5/1
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and t...
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