Kohlhiesel's Daughters

IMDb link: 0011371
IMDb rating: 6.5 (531 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Emil Jannings, Gustav von Wangenheim, Henny Porten, Jakob Tiedtke and others

Release date: 5 Jul 1920
Release year: 1920
Runtime: 64 minutes
Country: Germany
Keywords: reference to shakespeare's the taming of the shrew, matchmaking, sister sister relationship, sexuality, lubitsch and jannings, marriage, based on book

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's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, then get rid of her, and then he can marry Gretel.

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