The Merry Jail (1917)

Original title

Das fidele Gefängnis

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

56 min

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A silent comedy based on an operetta. It follows characters involved in humorous situations set in a jail.

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What happens

The Merry Jail (German: Das Fidele Gefängnis) is a 1917 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The script draws from the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II. Kurt Richter was the set designer, while Paul Davidson produced the film. In 2010, the film was screened at the Locarno Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to Lubitsch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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