THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE

From ERNST LUBITSCH

With MONTE BLUE, FLORENCE VIDOR, ADOLPHE MENJOU, MARIE PREVOST

Year 1924

Duration 85 min.

7.1.2025, 18:45 with live musical accompaniment by Florian C. Reither

Even in their new homeland, most of Lubitsch's films tell of the old one.Vienna of all places, ‘the city of laughter and romance’, is the distant setting for this ‘sex comedy’ - as it was called for lack of a better term - characterised by mistaken identities, role reversals and surprising twists and turns.Two married couples, one newly in love, the other bound by mutual contempt, and a fifth wheel on the wagon that sets in motion a dangerous game with fire ... THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE is regarded as the first proof that film comedies can also set artistic standards and is one of the favourite films of Hitchcock, Chaplin and Kurosawa.The creator of this elegant and frivolously sophisticated comedy loved it the most of all his works.