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Emil Jannings

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
VarietyVariety (1925) Aro Favourite
Dir. E.A. Dupont
Feat. Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti
A cautionary fable of romantic treachery set in the since–vanished vaudeville world, lent depth through its sophisticated visual style. Emil…
Last Laugh, TheLast Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
FaustFaust (1926) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
Innovative camera tricks and production design distinguish this rendering of the literary staple about a man who sells his soul to the devil.…
TartuffeTartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha
This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
Last Command, TheLast Command, The (1928) Aro Favourite
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra…
Blue Angel, TheBlue Angel, The (1930) Aro Favourite
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.

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