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Countess Kitchenmaid (1918)

Countess Kitchenmaid poster
Original title
Gräfin Küchenfee
Directed by
Rudolf Biebrach, Robert Wiene
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young maid poses as her aristocratic mistress when the woman goes on a secret trip. She must fool a visiting dignitary into thinking the household servants are actually the nobility.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulfast-pacedslapstickcheerfulsillyupbeat

What happens

Countess Kitchenmaid (German: Gräfin Küchenfee) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Heinrich Schroth and Martin Lübbert. While her mistress is away on an adulterous adventure, a young maid takes her place to convince a visiting dignitary that she is there with the other servants impersonating aristocrats. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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