Madame DuBarry (Music: Boh Vajec)

Madame DuBarry plays a key role in Lubitsch’s career. It became one of the greatest German export successes, competed with Hollywood spectacles even in the American market, and strengthened Lubitsch’s international standing. Here, the French Revolution is treated as spectacle, melodrama, operetta, opera, and farce, with a striking heroine at the centre of the action.