When Four Do the Same

• Emil Jannings: Widower Seegstoff
• Ossi Oswaldo: his daughter
• Margarete Copper: Long bookseller
• Fritz Schulz: Tobias lard stitch
• Victor Janson: Dance teacher

If four do the same is a German silent film comedy in three acts by Ernst Lubitsch from the year 1917.

Content

The widower Seegstoff really want to experience only a peaceful retirement with his daughter. He gets the crazy girl therefore from the boarding. On the train ride home his daughter encounters the poets Tobias lard stitch, which will start from the strict bookseller Long, who is also his landlady to work as a Commission. She falls in love with him, thus ensuring a shambles.

Also Seegstoff widower falls in love and true promptly in the bookseller Lange, for which he advertises in the sequence with all sorts of cunning. After all four visits a widow ball, find both pairs together at last.

Production

The shooting for the same if four were doing in the Ufa studios in Union - Tempelhof in Berlin. The buildings of the film come from Kurt Richter. The film showed Ossi Oswaldo in her first leading role. Censorship occupied If four do the same, which had a length of 1076 meters, in October 1917 with a youth ban. The film was on November 16, 1917 at U.T. Nollendorfplatz and the U.T. Kurfürstendamm premiered in Berlin.

Criticism

". Humoristik good dance school and dream sequences, as well as game and pictures very well " The contemporary critics rated If four do the same with the cinematograph was impressed by the film:

" How are two pairs of the four who is conceived with such delicious humor and played with true virtuosity that bright delight nor subsequently detects a. There is only sunshine, from which the innate humor lit. The intertitles reflect the pleasure that have had while working the authors. "

The film described If four do the same thing as a " very fine and tastefully staged Union - comedy ".