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When Four Do the Same is a film of genre Comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch with Ossi Oswalda

When Four Do the Same (1917)

Wenn vier dasselbe tun

When Four Do the Same
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Length 40minutes
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Genres Comedy
Rating57% 2.8761452.8761452.8761452.8761452.876145

When Four Do the Same (German:Wenn vier Dasselbe tun) is a 1917 German silent comedy drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings and Margarete Kupfer. Lubitsch himself plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter. The film was a key transitional work in Lubitsch's career, as he began to produce films with greater depth than his early light comedies.

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Seegstoff fait revenir sa fille du pensionnat et se réjouit de l'avoir avec lui pour sa retraite. Mais la jeune fille tombe amoureuse de Tobias. Dans le même temps, Seegstoff tombe lui aussi amoureux de Mme Lange, la libraire.

Actors

Ossi Oswalda

(Segetoffs Tochter)
Emil Jannings

(Segetoff)
Margarete Kupfer

(Frau Lange, Buchhändlerin)
Victor Janson

(Tanzlehrer)
Ernst Lubitsch

(Bit Role)
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