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His Late Excellency (1927)

His Late Excellency poster
Original title
Die selige Exzellenz
Directed by
Adolf Edgar Licho, Wilhelm Thiele
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy from 1920s Germany. It follows a series of amusing incidents involving a well-known person and those around them.

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What happens

His Late Excellency (German: Die selige Exzellenz) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Adolf E. Licho and Wilhelm Thiele and starring Willy Fritsch, Olga Chekhova, and Ernst Gronau. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Czerwonski and Günther Hentschel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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