The Merry Jail
Das fidele Gefängnis
Overview
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
- Production
- Projektions-AG Union
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Cast
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- Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Cinematography
- Theodor Sparkuhl
- Composer
- Johann Strauss II
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germish
January 29, 2013
The Merry Jail or Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) is one of the early films of Ernst Lubitsch. A light comedy, based on Strauss's operetta 'Die Fledermaus', about a rich couple and their maid in a gay Berlin of endless parties and ceremonies. It is also one of early films of Emil Jannings in the role of a nutty prison guard. The 25 year old Lubitsch portrays one his first and most original conceptions of marriage and women in a manner that is certainly years ahead of its time. And that's why I get d…