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Classic retrospective. Ernst lubitsch
 
   
 
  Als ich tot war / Wo ist mein Schatz 
 • Germany • 1916
 
  Angel 
 • USA • 1937
 
  Anna Boleyn 
 • Germany • 1920
 
  Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 
 • USA • 1938
 
  Broken Lullaby / The Man I Killed 
 • USA • 1932
 
  Carmen 
 • Germany • 1918
 
  Cluny Brown 
 • USA • 1946
 
  Das Weib des Pharao 
 • Germany • 1922
 
  Das fidele Gefängnis / Ein fideles Gefängnis 
 • Germany • 1917
 
  Der Blusenkönig 
 • Germany • 1917
 
  Design for Living 
 • USA • 1933
 
  Desire 
Frank Borzage, () • USA • 1936
 
  Die Augen der Mumie Mâ 
 • Germany • 1918
 
  Die Austernprinzessin 
 • Germany • 1919
 
  Die Bergkatze 
 • Germany • 1921
 
  Die Flamme 
 • USA • 1923
 
  Die Puppe 
 • Germany • 1919
 
  in Berlin 
Robert Fischer •  • 2006
 
  Eternal Love 
 • USA • 1929
 
  Forbidden Paradise 
 • USA • 1924
 
  Heaven Can Wait 
 • USA • 1943
 
  Ich möchte kein Mann sein 
 • Germany • 1918
 
  If I Had a Million 
(The Clerk), Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, H. Bruce Humberstone • USA • 1932
 
  Kohlhiesels Töchter 
 • Germany • 1920
 
  Lady Windermere's Fan 
 • USA • 1925
 
  Madame Dubarry 
 • Germany • 1919
 
  Meyer aus Berlin 
 • Germany • 1919
 
  Monte Carlo 
 • USA • 1930
 
  Ninotchka 
 • USA • 1939
 
  One Hour with You 
, George Cukor • USA • 1932
 
  Paramount on Parade 
(Origin of the Apache, A Park in Paris, The Rainbow Revels), Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle • USA • 1930
 
  Romeo und Julia im Schnee 
 • Germany • 1920
 
  Rosita 
 • USA • 1923
 
  Schuhpalast Pinkus 
 • Germany • 1916
 
  So This Is Paris 
 • USA • 1926
 
  Sumurun 
 • Germany • 1920
 
  That Uncertain Feeling 
 • USA • 1941
 
  The Love Parade 
 • USA • 1929
 
  The Marriage Circle 
 • USA • 1924
 
  The Merry Widow 
 • USA • 1934
 
  The Patriot 
 • USA • 1928
 
  The Shop Around the Corner 
 • USA • 1940
 
  The Smiling Lieutenant 
 • USA • 1931
 
  The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 
, (John M. Stahl) • USA • 1927
 
  Three Women 
 • USA • 1924
 
  To Be or Not To Be 
 • USA • 1942
 
  Trouble in Paradise 
 • USA • 1932
 
  Wenn vier dasselbe tun 
 • Germany • 1917


That Ernst Lubitsch (Berlin, 1892-Los Angeles, 1947) was one of the greatest creators in the history of film is an uncontested claim recognized the world over. A highly unusual filmmaker of a style demanding its own name: his inimitable, elegant and intelligent manner of making people laugh was labelled The Lubitsch Touch.

Billy Wilder, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Woody Allen among so many other geniuses have always looked up to a master: Lubitsch. It was he who made Greta Garbo laugh in Ninotchka (1939). And who dared, in full swing of the Nazi offensive, to ridicule Hitler in the ferocious, hilarious anti-fascist pamphlet: To Be Or Not To Be (1942). These are fully recognised achievements by the creator of comedy masterpieces including The Shop Around the Corner (1940) or Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938). However, less presence is enjoyed by the extraordinary anti-war drama Broken Lullaby (1932) or the large part of his work made while movies were still silent, from the inheritance of Oscar Wilde in his version of Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) to the delicious inventiveness of Die Austernprinzessin (1919). The San Sebastian Festival will take an in-depth look at the complete works of Ernst Lubitsch in a retrospective completing an overview of a director who was more than just a stereotyped master of sophisticated comedy, underlining the palpable traces left by his cinema even today.



A regular chapter in the Festival retrospective section has been a cycle dedicated to a classic director, enabling us to appreciate the little or virtually unknown work of such filmmakers as Robert Siodmak, James Whale, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman, Gregory La Cava, Tod Browning, Mitchell Leisen, Mikio Naruse, John M. Stahl, Carol Reed, Frank Borzage, Michael Powell, Preston Sturges, Anthony Mann and Robert Wise.

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