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The oyster princess : a grotesque comedy in 4 acts /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: K515 | Kino InternationalK576 | Kino International (set)Language: No linguistic content Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Lubitsch in BerlinPublication details: New York : Kino International, [2007]Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Uniform titles:
  • Austernprinzessin. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .A9784767756947756 2007
Contents:
The oyster princess (1919 ; 60 min.) -- I don't want to be a man (1920 ; 45 min.).
Production credits:
  • Oyster princess: Cinematography, Theodor Sparkuhl ; set decoration, Kurt Richter ; new music, Aljoscha Zimmermann. I don't want to be a man: Set design and decoration, Kurt Richter ; new music, Neil Brand ; subtitles, Kristin Blackmore.
Cast: Oyster princess: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein, Max Kronert, Kurt Bois. I don't want to be a man: Ossi Oswalda, Kurt Götz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer, Victor Janson.Summary: The Oyster Princess: A comedy in which a pampered American oyster tycoon plans to find a prince to marry his much-indulged daughter, but things don't go his way.Summary: I don't want to be a man (Ich möchte kein Mann sein): while her father is away, a teenage tomboy impersonates a man in this gender-bending absurdist comedy.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1613 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050127948

Special features: Lubitsch filmography.

The oyster princess (1919 ; 60 min.) -- I don't want to be a man (1920 ; 45 min.).

Originally released on film in 1919 (1st work) and 1920 (2nd work). 35mm restoration by the F.W. Murnau Foundation.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.

Silent films with English intertitles translated from the German.

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