Tartuffe

Aroview: This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a film-within-a-film, outlaying the morality story of a housekeeper who coerces her way into her master’s will. Coarse, expressionistic, and with a clearly defined statement on the hypocrisy of religion, it stands as one of the earliest examples of cinema at its most pure and uninhibited.