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 puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Story: E. T. A. Hoffmann
Writer: Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Director of Photography: Theodor Sparkuhl, Kurt Waschneck
Producer: Paul Davidson
Ossi / The Doll
Lancelot
Hilarius
Lancelot's Housekeeper
Wife of Hilarius
Baron of Chanterelle
The Apprentice
The Abbott