Shoe Palace Pinkus | |
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Directed by | Ernst Lubitsch |
Written by |
Hanns Kräly Erich Schönfelder |
Starring |
Ernst Lubitsch Else Kentner Guido Herzfeld Ossi Oswalda |
Production
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Distributed by | Union Film |
Release date
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March 1916 |
Running time
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60 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language |
Silent German intertitles |
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. Before long he has become a shoe tycoon.
It premièred on 9 June 1916 at the Union-Theater Nollendorfplatz, and at the U.-T. Kurfürstendamm (Filmbühne Wien), Berlin.