A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Als ich tot war
(When I Was Dead)
Also known as Wo ist mein Schatz? in Germany
(1916) Germany
B&W : Short film
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Cast: Ernst Lubitsch [der gatte (the husband)], Louise Schenrich [die gattin (the wife)], Lanchen Voss [schwiegermutter (the mother-in-law)]; [?] ? [the maid], [?] ? [the chess opponent]

Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU] production. / Scenario by Ernst Lubitsch. / Released 25 February 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A print of the film was identified in a Slovenian film archive by the Ljubljana Filmmuseum in 1994.

Comedy.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 19 December 2023.

References: Weinberg-Lubitsch p. 320 : Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.