The Student Prince in Old HeidelbergThe Crown Prince (Ramon Novarro) leaves his cloistered life at court to attend Heidelberg University and falls in love with a young barmaid (Norma Shearer).
Lubitsch's extraordinarily 'musical' silent adaptation of Sigmund Romberg's operetta is one of the director's great American films and a peak of late silent cinema.
An important precursor to Lubitsch's subsequent Ruritanian musicals, this bittersweet tale of star-crossed lovers is a wonderfully boisterous, energetic and emotionally poignant work that embodies the director's famed 'touch'.
