The Doll

The Doll

1919 · 66 min · ★ 7.4 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · Written by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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