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The Prince of Pappenheim (1927)

The Prince of Pappenheim poster
Original title
Der Fürst von Pappenheim
Directed by
Richard Eichberg
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
Germany
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man with big ambitions pretends to be a prince to get ahead in life. His scheme leads to a series of comic misunderstandings and romantic entanglements.

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What happens

The Prince of Pappenheim (German: Der Fürst von Pappenheim) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Mona Maris, Curt Bois and Dina Gralla. Bois' character of an ambitious young man was closely modelled on the early film appearances of Ernst Lubitsch. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Baden-Baden. The film's art direction was by Jacek Rotmil. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. The film adapts an operetta by Franz Robert Arnold and Ernst Bach, Der Fürst von Pappenheim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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