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The Shop Around the Corner
· 1940

The Shop Around the Corner

Ernst Lubitsch
anonymous romance mistaken identity workplace conflict epistolary love class and social barriers
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Synopsis

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

This Film Influenced

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