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23 May 2026 Anères (France)
Festival du Cinéma muet d'Anères: The Daughters of Kohlhiesel (Kohlhiesel's daughters)
Chamber Trio - Festival d'Anères location
Program Info: Piano : Roch Havet Trumpet : Xavier Bornens Battery : Aidje Tafial
The Daughters of Kohlhiesel (Kohlhiesel's daughters) by Ernst Lubitsch with Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Jakob Tiedtke 1920 / Germany / 1h05 / DCP / Original version with French subtitles Copy: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung (Wiesbaden / Germany)
Kohlhiesel has two daughters, who are also robust, but of very different characters. Gretel is sweet and flirtatious, while Liesl is a surly. Xaver falls in love with Gretel, but Kohlhiesel refuses to marry her until he finds a husband for Liesl...
Before making a name for himself in Hollywood and making cinematic history with his "Lubitsch Touch" with unforgettable films such as Serenade for Three or To Be or Not to Be , Ernst Lubitsch had a successful start in Germany in the 1910s and 1920s. During the winter of 1919-1920, he transposed Shakespeare's characters to the Bavarian mountains: The Lovers of Verona in Romeo and Juliet in the Snow and those of The Taming of the Shrew in Kohlhiesel's Daughters . The latter is Lubitsch's most popular work, regularly screened in cinemas until the end of the 1920s. In this peasant farce, actress Henny Porten plays the roles of the sisters Liesel and Gretel, the harpy facing the desired. The allegorical double portrait turns out to be a furious war of the sexes. This film about deceptive appearances and the beauty of the soul is a jewel of buffoonery: everything is exaggerated to emphasise the grotesque character of the story and the characters. Playing with situation comedy, Ernst Lubitsch delivers an energetic, particularly rhythmic film, tinged with a certain sense of burlesque that marked the first part of his work.
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