Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry (1919)

A Mighty Epoch of the Screen

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Date of release
1919-09-18
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (30)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Ernst Lubitsch

Casting

Interesting facts

Madame Dubarry is a 1919 German silent historical film of the life of Madame du Barry. It was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Norbert Falk and Hanns Kräly, with the title role taken by Pola Negri and Louis XV played by Emil Jannings. It was made at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter.

Production

Madame Dubarry was filmed on the Ufa-Freigelände (open-air grounds), against the backdrop of the Neues Palais in Potsdam, and in the Ufa-Union studio in Tempelhof (Berlin). Censorship banned the film from youth screenings in July 1919. The film premiered on 18 September 1919, at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin; it marked the opening of this important Berlin cinema.

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