The Wildcat

About 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.

Ernst Lubitsch's The Wildcat is a 1921 comedy romance film. It runs 85 minutes and was released in April 1921.

Pola Negri stars as Rischka, Victor Janson as Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein, Paul Heidemann as Leutnant Alexis, and Wilhelm Diegelmann as Räuberhauptmann Claudius. Written by Ernst Lubitsch and Hanns Kräly.

Shelv files it under german expressionism, masochist, and silent film.

Metropolis, Nosferatu, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari make useful companions to The Wildcat. It carries a NR rating.