Question 1

Which festivals featured this 1918 gender-bending comedy?

Accepted Answer

The film was featured at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1984.

Question 2

How was the film released in the US and UK decades later?

Accepted Answer

In the US, Kino Lorber released it in 2007 as part of the box set 'Lubitsch in Berlin' with English intertitles. In the UK, Eureka's Masters of Cinema released it in 2010 as part of 'Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies' with German intertitles and English subtitles.

Question 3

Who plays the teenage tomboy Ossi in this film?

Accepted Answer

Ossi Oswalda plays the character Ossi, the teenage tomboy who impersonates a man.

Question 4

What is the central conflict of the film?

Accepted Answer

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man to have more fun, but discovers being the opposite sex isn't easy.

Question 5

Who directed and co-wrote this early gender-bending comedy?

Accepted Answer

Ernst Lubitsch directed and co-wrote the film with Hanns Kräly.

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