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  • Faust
  • Faust review by from London UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Spruced-up Classic 19 May 2004
    ...Beautifuly restored. it's fascinating to see legendary performers like Emil Jannings and Yvette Guilbert (who was,in her heyday,drawn several times by Toulouse Lautrec-)do t...   Read customer review
  • The Blue Angel
  • The Blue Angel review by from leamington
    Rated - 4.0 stars Ze Drunken Angel 19 September 2004
    ...s. The story concerns a teacher of English (played extremely ponderously by Emil Jannings) who has great difficulty in making his curiously mature students say 'the' ins...   Read customer review
  • The Last Laugh
  • The Last Laugh review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Simple story, complex filming 23 August 2005
    ...feature and documentary. If I have a reservation it concerns the performance of Emil Jannings as the doorman. He was the biggest star in Germany at the time and his acting i...   Read customer review

Emil Jannings - filmography


  • The Blue Angel
  • The Blue Angel (2 discs) on DVD (1930)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Hans Albers,  Marlene Dietrich
    Director: Josef Von Sternberg
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Professor Rath (Emil Jannings) discovers some postcards of night-club singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich) being passed among his class. He then goes to the club where the singer works in the hope of catching some of his students but instead becomes entranced by the vampish beauty of Lola herself. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,383 member
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  • Tartuffe
  • Tartuffe on DVD (1926)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Lil Dagover,  Werner Krauss
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    F.W. Murnau's adaptation of Molière's satire, often overlooked in favour of his grander masterpieces 'Faust' and 'Nosferatu', delivers a strong morality lesson about the evils of hypocrisy and greed. Set in a contemporary 1920s setting and presented as a 'film-within-a-film', the film tells the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 233 members
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  • Faust
  • Faust (1926)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Camilla Horn,  Frida Richard
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    F.W. Murnau's classic silent version of the German folk story. Faust (Gosta Ekmann) is an alchemist and scholar who becomes an unwitting pawn in a wager made between the Devil (Emil Jannings) and the Archangel Michael. The Devil sends a plague upon Faust's village, and Faust manages to find a cure, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 998 members
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  • The Last Laugh
  • The Last Laugh on DVD (1924)
    Starring: Emelie Kurtz,  Emil Jannings,  Kurt Hiller
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Silent classic from 1924 that tells the tale of the humiliation, rejection and ultimate triumph of an elderly hotel doorman (Emil Jannings) whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant, but gets the last laugh when he inherits the fortune of a wealthy American who left his bundle ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 836 members
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Emil Jannings facts

5 most recent films

The Blue Angel - 3.5 stars
Tartuffe - 3.0 stars
Faust - 3.5 stars
The Last Laugh - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Last Laugh - 3.5 stars
Faust - 3.5 stars
The Blue Angel - 3.5 stars
Tartuffe - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tartuffe - 3.0 stars
The Blue Angel - 3.5 stars
Faust - 3.5 stars
The Last Laugh - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kurt Gerron - 3 times - show films
Hans Albers - 3 times - show films
Marlene Dietrich - 3 times - show films
Frida Richard - 2 times - show films
William Dieterle - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

F.W. Murnau - 6 times - show films
Josef Von Sternberg - 3 times - show films

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