Shoe Palace Pinkus

Shoe Palace Pinkus
Shoe Palace Pinkus
	Ernst Lubitsch
Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	Hanns Kräly; Erich Schönfelder;
Starring	Ernst Lubitsch; ; Guido Herzfeld; Ossi Oswalda;
Production; company	PAGU
Distributed by
Release date	March 1916
Running time	60 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent; German intertitles;

Shoe Palace Pinkus (German: Schuhpalast Pinkus) is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Lubitsch, and Guido Herzfeld. In English it is sometimes known by the alternative titles Shoe Salon Pinkus and The Shoe Palace.^[1] It was part of the Sally series of films featuring Lubitsch as a sharp young Berliner of Jewish heritage. After leaving school, a self-confident young man goes to work in a shoe shop. Soon after, he becomes a shoe tycoon.^[2]

It premièred on 9 June 1916 at the Union-Theater Nollendorfplatz, and at the U.-T. Kurfürstendamm (Filmbühne Wien), Berlin.^[3]

Cast[]

Ernst Lubitsch as Sally Pinkus
as Melitta Herve
Guido Herzfeld as Mr. Meiersohn
Ossi Oswalda as Apprentice
Hanns Kräly as Teacher
Erich Schönfelder as Schuhmacher
Fritz Rasp

References[]

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVdagCwN0Q
^ Prawer p.42-49
^ "Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916)". Cinefest.de (in German)

Bibliography[]

Eyman, Scott. Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links[]

Shoe Palace Pinkus at IMDb

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[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwVdagCwN0Q

[2] Prawer p.42-49

[3] "Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916)". Cinefest.de (in German)

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