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  • San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2025

Kohlhiesel’s Daughters

Live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jakob Liedtke

A snowy Bavarian mountain village replaces Padua as the setting for this slapstick version of Shakespeare’s earliest play about two sisters of marrying age. The director’s biggest comedy in Germany (and that’s saying something) stars Henny Porten as both the hausfrau-ready daughter and the one in need of taming. Emil Jannings is the chauvinist in need of a wife who thinks he’s found a clever way to deal with the shrew.

  • 65 min.
  • Germany
  • 1920
  • DCP
Underwriter
Cynthia Walk and Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts

Live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

Principally a pianist, STEPHEN HORNE often incorporates flute, accordion, and various other instruments into his performances, sometimes playing them simultaneously. Horne is considered one of the world’s leading silent film accompanists.

Percussionist FRANK BOCKIUS joined Guenter Buchwald’s Silent Movie Music Company more than twenty years ago and has since performed for silent films around the world.

Details

Original Language Title
Kohlhiesels Töchter
Country
Germany
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Year
1920
Cast
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jakob Liedtke
Runtime
65 min.
Source
F.W. Murnau- Stiftung
Format
DCP
Sun, Nov 16, 2025
12:45 PM
Orinda Theatre
$20 general
$18 member
12 and under, free
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