Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch was born in 1892 in Berlin, the son of a ladies' tailor. After an apprenticeship in the cloth trade, he became a pupil of Max Reinhardt and joined the Deutsches Theater as an actor in 1911. He moved into cinema first as a comic performer, then as a director, and from 1919 alternated comedies and large-scale historical films. Called to Hollywood in 1922, he became the master of sophisticated comedy, whose manner came to be called the “Lubitsch touch”. He received an honorary Oscar in 1946 and died in Los Angeles in 1947.

In the catalogue 3

• CinemaPassionMadame DubarryErnst Lubitsch · 1919Cinema
• CinemaTrouble in ParadiseErnst Lubitsch · 1932Cinema
• CinemaTo Be or Not to BeErnst Lubitsch · 1942Cinema