director: Urban Gad
years: 1912/ 1913
country: Germany
alternative titles: Mimisches Lustspiel

This film features Asta Nielsen, who later played Hamlet in one of the most notable 'pants roles' of the silent era. Jesta Müller dresses as a young man in order to be close to a lieutenant she admires. He is supposed to marry another, but only to save his family from financial ruin. Jesta follows him, and finds herself caught in a series of increasingly tricky situations: she has to share a bed with him, shave, listen to men’s jokes, and almost go swimming with him. Ultimately, however, she becomes his wife.

Screenplay: Urban Gad.
Director of Photography: Guido Seeber.
Cast: Hans Mierendorff (Peter von Prangen, landholder), Asta Nielsen (Jesta Müller), Fritz Weidemann (Lieutenant Ernst Pranger).
Production Company: Deutsche Bioscop GmbH, Berlin, for Projektions-AG 'Union' (PAGU), Frankfurt/Main.
Producer: Paul Davidson, Urban Gad (?), Erich Zeiske.
Studio: Bioscop-Atelier Neubabelsberg.
Length: 3 acts.
Format: 35 mm, 1:1.33.
Picture/Sound: b/w, silent.
Censorship Details: Aug 1912, BZ.st.09793/12, ban for young people.
Première: 3 Jan 1913.
Notes: Asta Nielsen/Urban Gad-series.

Source notes
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

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