While most often associated with classic Hollywood romantic comedies, Ernst Lubitsch's career in Germany was as interesting and important as his contemporaries Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Collected here are five of his silent films from the late teens and early twenties. Full of rich visuals, madcap sequences, and comic moments that hint of the brilliant American career to come, these features are more than just background for one of cinema's most important contributors.

Ernst Lubitsch: German Director, TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932)