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Kohlhiesel's Daughters

Kohlhiesels Töchter

1920·64 min·DE
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
ComedyRomance

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...

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Cast

Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

Peter Xaver

Henny Porten

Henny Porten

Liesel und Gretel Kohlhiesel

Jakob Tiedtke

Jakob Tiedtke

Mathias Kohlhiesel

Gustav von Wangenheim

Gustav von Wangenheim

Paul Seppl

Willy Prager

Willy Prager

Händler

Crew

Hanns Kräly

writer

Theodor Sparkuhl

cinematographer

Ernst Lubitsch

writer

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