Als Ich Tot War (aka Wo Ist Mein Schatz?) (1916)

After he is kicked out of his house by his disapproving mother in law (Lanchen Voss), a man (Ernst Lubitsch, who also directed) returns to the household disguised as a servant. Billed as a comedy in three acts, this is director Lubitsch's earliest known surviving film. It's an amusing piffle with clear indications of the famed Lubitsch "touch" although the comedy is much broader than the lighter touch he would apply to his Hollywood career. As an actor, Lubitsch is a good physical comedian and he is well matched with Voss and his scenes with her are the film's best. Not a mandatory film in the Lubitsch canon but for fans of the director, it serves as an archival reminder of a budding comedic genius. With Louise Schenrich and Julius Falkenstein.