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Genre
  
Comedy, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

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Director
  
Ernst Lubitsch

Initial DVD release
  
December 5, 2007 (USA)

I Dont Want to Be a Man movie poster

Writer
  
Hanns Kraly
,
Ernst Lubitsch

Release date
  
1 October 1918 (1918-10-01)

Screenplay
  
Ernst Lubitsch, Hanns Kraly

Cast
  
Ossi Oswalda
(Ossi),
Curt Goetz
(Dr. Kersten),
Ferry Sikla
(Counsellor Brockmüller),
Margarete Kupfer
(Gouvernante),
Victor Janson

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I Don't Want to Be a Man (German: Ich möchte kein Mann sein) is a 1918 German film directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Contents

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Cast

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  • Ossi Oswalda as Ossi
  • Curt Goetz as Dr. Kersten
  • Ferry Sikla as Counsellor Brockmüller
  • Margarete Kupfer as The Governess
  • Victor Janson
  • Plot

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    High-spirited young Ossi Oswalda is the bane of her uncle and governess' existence. She insists on playing poker and smoking and talks with strange men on the street. When her uncle leaves to take up a new job, she looks forward to enjoying new freedom. Her hopes are dashed when her new guardian Dr. Kersten proves to be strict and unyielding. Frustrated with her cloistered life, Ossi sneaks out on the town dressed as a young man. She finds that being a man has its own disadvantages when she discovers she is not given the same gentle treatment when she is masquerading as a male. She decides to attend a lavish ball in her new disguise. Soon, Dr. Kersten appears at the ball trying to woo a young lady and Ossi vengefully tries to steal her away from her hated guardian. Eventually, another man attracts the woman's attention, and the disguised Ossi and the doctor reconcile. The two proceed to bond over cigars and champagne. After the ball is over, the pair drunkenly stumble home, exchanging inebriated kisses. After they pass out in a hired cab, the driver mistakenly leaves Ossi at the doctor's house and drops off the doctor at Ossi's home. Upon waking up in strange house, Ossi becomes alarmed and runs home where the doctor has woken up and is trying to sneak out of the house undetected. Still in disguise, she pretends she is visiting her cousin Ossi and the doctor begs her not to tell his ward about their "adventure". Ossi agrees and goes upstairs where she begins to undress. The doctor comes in to wake her and is astonished to see Ossi wearing a man's suit. The tables are turned when Ossi scolds him for his behavior. Giving in to the attraction he feels for her, the doctor kisses her.

    DVD releases

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    The film was released in the US by Kino Lorber as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin" in 2007 with English intertitles. It was also released in the UK by Eureka's Masters of Cinema series as part of the box set "Lubitsch in Berlin: Fairy-Tales, Melodramas, and Sex Comedies" in 2010 with German intertitles and English subtitles.


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