The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch In The Marriage Circle, One Hour With You, and Trouble in Paradise Lubitsch towered above anybody, creatively . . . he was the greatest craftsman whoever lived . . . in the sense of knowing the most brilliant and original way to use the medium . . . His talent and originality were stupefying . . . Lubitsch was cerebrally was beyond the ordinary director . . . A man of pure cinema . . . Lubitsch was a prince. (www.his.com/~scottb/lubitsch/potpouri.html). Introduction Born on January 28, 1892 in Berlin, Ernst Lubitsch was from the German middle class. He was an extraordinary director. For him, film style and theme fit together perfectly.