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Prinz Sami
(Prince Sami)
Also known as Il principe Sami in Italy
(1918) Germany
B&W : Short film
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Ernst Lubitsch [Prinz Sami], Ossi Oswalda [Herzogin Maria], Wilhelm Diegelmann, Margarete Kupfer, Viktor Janson, Erich Schönfelder, Hanns Kräly

[?] Union-Film or Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU]? production. / Produced by Paul Davidson. Scenario by Ernst Lubitsch and Danny Kaden. Art direction by Kurt Richter. Cinematography by Alfred Hansen. / Released 11 January 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 24 July 2016.

References: Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 322 : Website-IMDb.