Meyer from Berlin (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch: Director and Star

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"Meyer from Berlin" ("Meyer aus Berlin" 1919) makes a nice bookend with "Shoe Palace Pinkus" (" Schuhpalast Pinkus" 1916) from three years earlier. "Pinkus" was Ernst Lubitsch's first appearance as the little Berlin Jew with the big plans, and "Meyer" was his last appearance in the role. Between the two, Lubitsch played the character under various names in a popular series of films that made him a favorite comic actor in Germany.
Lubitsch would direct himself in only two more films: Briefly in the witty prologue to "The Doll" ("Die Puppe" 1919) and as a featured character, the tragic hunchback Yeggar, in the Arabian Nights fantasy "Sumurun" (1920), based on a pantomime originally staged by Lubitsch's mentor Max Reinhardt. After "Sumurun" Lubitsch stayed behind the camera.
If you watch "Shoe Palace Pinkus," also available on my channel, you'll see in "Meyer" a real advance in Lubitsch's skills. He's much more relaxed as both actor and director, and more willing to let the other performers build their characters, especially Trude Troll as the smart, charming lady he chases around the Swiss Alps. It's a very funny film. I added English subtitles to the German intertitles. The rest is Lubitsch.

[@robertsmith-qb2ke]

Thank you for the chance to see such an interesting movie. And not just a historical curio, either. Trude Troll a charming foil for Herr Lubitsch! Thanks also for the English translation.

[@NBartrina]

Great movie.
Impecably preserved. Music good too.
Never seen anything like that.
Many thanks,
Luis

[@user-ut6yo6db4f]

Thanks a lot for uploadin!

[@valescawagner5074]

Vielen Dank für die Veröffentlichung dieses seltenen Film !!! :D

[@elizabethdelara6786]

So great an observer of human nature, what to expect from men and girls.

[@igricheff1]

Réjouissant . Un plaisir .

[@charlesramos4294]

What a hilarious film starring the legendary Ernst Lubitsch as “Sally Meyer” 😂 with beautiful actresses Trude Toll as “Kitty” 💕🌹and Ethel Orff as “Mrs. Paula Meyer” 💕🌹and Heinz Landsmann as “Harry”!

[@jeanstclairdelaroux2992]

un chef d'doeuvre

[@ireneprit9760]

thanks for this rare footage... A good idea about jews in the weimar republik.

[@logoarchivecollectioncompa19]

That has reconstructed titles using the Helvetica font from 1980.

[@logoarchivecollectioncompa19]

There is the Helvetica font before 1957?

[@TheEmmochka]

Lubitch was a European Jew . Born in Germany