Shoe Palace Pinkus

1916 film
Starring
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Else Kentner
  • Guido Herzfeld
  • Ossi Oswalda
Production
company
PAGU
Distributed byUnion Film
Release date
  • March 1916 (1916-03)
Running time
60 minutesCountryGermanyLanguages
  • Silent
  • German intertitles
Schuhpalast Pinkus (full film)

Shoe Palace Pinkus (German: Schuhpalast Pinkus) is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Lubitsch, Else Kentner and Guido Herzfeld. In English it is sometimes known by the alternative titles Shoe Salon Pinkus and The Shoe Palace. It was part of the Sally series of films featuring Lubitsch as a sharp young Berliner of Jewish heritage. After leaving school, a self-confident young man goes to work in a shoe shop. Soon after, he becomes a shoe tycoon.[1]

It premièred on 9 June 1916 at the Union-Theater Nollendorfplatz, and at the U.-T. Kurfürstendamm (Filmbühne Wien), Berlin.[2]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Prawer p.42-49
  2. ^ "Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916)". Cinefest.de (in German)

Bibliography

  • Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

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