The Wildcat (1921)

Name: The Wildcat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1921-04-14
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig

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.

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Released 1921-04-14 · 85 min · Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directed by 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
Fritz Rasp as Solider (Uncredited)