Shoe Palace Pinkus

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

Schuhpalast Pinkus (full film)

Shoe Palace Pinkus (German: Schuhpalast Pinkus) is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Lubitsch, Else Kentner and Guido Herzfeld. In English it is sometimes known by the alternative titles Shoe Salon Pinkus and The Shoe Palace. 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.

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

Cast

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

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