When Four Do the Same (1917)

Original title

Wenn vier dasselbe tun

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

40 min

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 book shop employee falls in love with the daughter of another character. The film is a silent comedy drama from early in Ernst Lubitsch's career.

lightheartedromanticwhimsicalbriskplayfulunderstated

What happens

When Four Do the Same (German: Wenn vier dasselbe tun) is a 1917 German silent comedy drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings and Margarete Kupfer. Lubitsch himself plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' character's daughter. The film was a key transitional work in Lubitsch's career, as he began to produce films with greater depth than his early light comedies. The film was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. It premièred in Berlin on 16 November 1917 at the Union-Theatre am Nollendorfplatz and at the UT Kufürstendamm (Filmbühne Wien). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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