Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)

Name: Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 1920-03-08

1h 4m

Running Time

Plot.

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel..

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Cast & Crew.

Emil Jannings

Peter Xaver

Henny Porten

Liesel und Gretel Kohlhiesel

Jakob Tiedtke

Mathias Kohlhiesel

Gustav von Wangenheim

Paul Seppl

Willy Prager

Händler

Ernst Lubitsch

Director / Writer

Hanns Kräly

Writer

Giuseppe Becce

Music

Theodor Sparkuhl

Director of Photography

Aljoscha Zimmermann

Composer

Details.

Release Date
March 8, 1920

Original Name
Kohlhiesels Töchter

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 4m

Genres
Romance Comedy

Last updated: 2025-02-09

Wiki.

Kohlhiesels Töchter (English title: Kohlhiesel's Daughters) is a 1920 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Henny Porten, Emil Jannings and Jakob Tiedtke. It is an adaptation of the play Kohlhiesel's Daughters by Hanns Kräly, Lubitsch's frequent collaborator, who also worked on the film's screenplay. Three further film adaptations have been made of the work including a 1930 sound remake which also starred Porten.

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin