The Wildcat

The Wildcat

82 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | April 14, 1921

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

The Wildcat

82 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | April 14, 1921

The Wildcat
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Projektions-AG Union (PAGU)
Original title Die Bergkatze
Directors Ernst Lubitsch
Writers Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch

Cast

Pola Negri

as Rischka

Victor Janson

as Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein

Paul Heidemann

as Leutnant Alexis

Wilhelm Diegelmann

as Räuberhauptmann Claudius

Hermann Thimig

as Pepo

Edith Meller

as Lilli

Marga Köhler

as Frau des Kommandanten

Paul Graetz

as Zofano

Erwin Kopp

as Tripo

Paul Biensfeldt

as Dafko

Max Kronert

as Masilio