Kohlhiesels Daughters (1920) - Ernst Lubitsch Silent Comedy

“Kohlhiesel’s Daughters“ (“Kohlhiesels Töchter“ - 1920) is a comedy that is about equally indebted to Shakespere’s “The Taming of the Shrew“ and the Tevye stories of Sholem Aleichem. Mr. Kohlhiesel has two marriageable daughters. The younger one is pretty and sweet-natured, the older is just the opposite. The younger wishes to marry the boy she loves, but that isn’t possible because the older daughter must be married first. The problem is finding a man crazy enough to marry such a difficult woman. Th