Prince Sami

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Movie
Original title Prince Sami
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1917
Rod
Director Ernst Lubitsch
script Danny Kaden ,
Ernst Lubitsch
production Paul Davidson
for Projektions-AG “Union”, Berlin
camera Alfred Hansen
occupation

Prinz Sami is a German silent film fun play by Ernst Lubitsch from 1917. It is one of the director's films that have been lost today .

content

Prince Sami comes from Negroes and is an uncivilized "nature boy". He is sent to the highly civilized court of the Duchess Maria von Arragonia, where he initially causes utter confusion. In the end, however, he becomes the Duchess's husband.

production

Kurt Richter created the buildings for the film. The shooting took place in the Ufa-Union-Ateliers Berlin-Tempelhof. Prince Sami , who was originally 1041 meters long, was censored in December 1917. The premiere of the film took place on January 1, 1918 in the UT Kurfürstendamm in Berlin .

In Prinz Sami , after works such as Schuhpalast Pinkus and Der Stolz der Firma , Lubitsch once again presented the "unadjusted [en ...], powerful sex offender".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See also Harry Waldman: Missing reels: lost films of American and European cinema . Mcfarland & Co, Jefferson 2007, p. 91.
  2. CB: Prince Sami . In: Der Film , No. 3, January 19, 1918.
  3. ^ Herta-Elisabeth Renk: Ernst Lubitsch . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992, p. 26.