The Merry Jail (1917)

Movie Details

Original Title Das fidele Gefängnis

Original Language DE

Status Released

Popularity 0.1

Cast

Harry Liedtke

Alex von Reizenstein

Popularity: 0.3

Emil Jannings

Quabbe - der Gaoler

Popularity: 2.6

Paul Biensfeldt

Popularity: 0.9

Erich Schönfelder

Egon Storch

Popularity: 0.1

Käthe Dorsch

Popularity: 0.1

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Kitty Dewall

Alice von Reizenstein

Popularity: 0.0

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Agda Nilsson

Mizi - die Magd

Popularity: 0.1

Ossi Oswalda

Popularity: 0.4

Key Crew

Director Ernst Lubitsch

Writer Ernst Lubitsch

Music Johann Strauss

Production

Projektions-AG Union

DE

Reviews from TMDB

germish 9.5/10

Jan 29, 2013

The Merry Jail or Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) is one of the early films of Ernst Lubitsch. A light comedy, based on Strauss's operetta 'Die Fledermaus', about a rich couple and their maid in a gay Berlin of endless parties and ceremonies. It is also one of early films of Emil Jannings in the role o ... Read more

germish 9.5/10

Jan 29, 2013

The Merry Jail or Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) is one of the early films of Ernst Lubitsch. A light comedy, based on Strauss's operetta 'Die Fledermaus', about a rich couple and their maid in a gay Berlin of endless parties and ceremonies. It is also one of early films of Emil Jannings in the role o ... Read more