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The Wildcat

Die Bergkatze

1921·85 min·DE
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
ComedyDramaRomance

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

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Cast

Pola Negri

Pola Negri

Rischka

Victor Janson

Victor Janson

Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein

Paul Heidemann

Paul Heidemann

Leutnant Alexis

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Räuberhauptmann Claudius

Hermann Thimig

Hermann Thimig

Pepo

Edith Meller

Edith Meller

Lilli

Marga Köhler

Marga Köhler

Frau des Kommandanten

Paul Graetz

Paul Graetz

Zofano

E

Erwin Kopp

Tripo

Paul Biensfeldt

Paul Biensfeldt

Dafko

M

Max Kronert

Masilio

Fritz Rasp

Fritz Rasp

Solider (Uncredited)

Crew

Hanns Kräly

writer

Theodor Sparkuhl

cinematographer

Ernst Lubitsch

writer

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