Die Austernprinzessin.

#96

Germany | 60 min.

1.37:1 OAR

black & white

monaural

Special Features


• New, officially licenced transfer from restored materials

• New and improved optional English subtitles with original German-language intertitles

• New short essay by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

• Six ThinPaks enclosed in a hardbox

• Accompanied by Robert Fischer’s feature-length 2006 documentary Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood

• Newly commissioned scores

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Die Austernprinzessin.

Ernst Lubitsch, 1919


As Die Austernprinzessin. [The Oyster Princess.], Ossi Oswalda makes another turn as a plutocrat’s rambunctious daughter — now the heiress of a global oyster empire, devoting her wiles once again to the service of man-ipulation. A comic high-point in the master’s oeuvre, Die Austernprinzessin. showcases the trademarks of the “Lubitsch Touch” and its ten-fingered dexterity, resulting in a film that is simultaneously clever, concise, and risqué.

Only available as part of the boxset:
LUBITSCH IN BERLIN: FAIRY-TALES, MELODRAMAS, AND SEX COMEDIES: SIX FILMS BY ERNST LUBITSCH, 1918–1921

LUBITSCH IN BERLIN BOXSET