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Emil Jannings


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  • Faust
  • Faust review by from London UK
    Rated - 4 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...  
  • The Blue Angel
  • The Blue Angel review by from leamington
    Rated - 4 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...  
  • The Last Laugh
  • The Last Laugh review by Zamy from London
    Rated - 4 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...  

Emil Jannings - filmography


  • Faust on DVD (1926)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Gosta Ekman,  Camilla Horn
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    F.W. Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth, as well as wealth and power. Based on Goethe's interpretation of the age-old legend, Murnau merely uses the story as a starting point for an incredibly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 779 members
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  • Tartuffe on DVD (1926)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Lil Dagover,  Werner Krauss
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An expressionistic retelling of the classic Moliere story, Murnau contemporized his version by setting the exploration of morality and hypocrisy amidst a housekeeper's murder plot. Here, the housekeeper (Rosa Valetti) schemes to poison her employer (Hermann Picha) in order to take control of his ..read more »
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  • The Last Laugh on DVD (1924)
    Starring: Emil Jannings,  Kurt Hiller,  Emelie Kurtz
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the most brilliant of all German Expressionist silent films, Murnau's THE LAST LAUGH uses a constantly moving and subjective camera to capture the emotional anguish of a man whose life is suddenly devoid of meaning. Because of his age, an elderly doorman at a hotel finds himself ..read more »
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Emil Jannings - watch online


  • Faust to Watch Now (1926)
    Starring: Gösta Ekman,  Emil Jannings,  Camilla Horn
    Director: F.W. Murnau
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 106 minutes
    Faust's tale is a classic one of a man who sells his soul to the devil. In an attempt to gain control of the Earth, Mephisto (Emil Jannings) wagers an angel (Werner Fuetterer) that he can corrupt the soul of the elderly professor Faust (Gosta Ekman). As the Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 90% from 2 members
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Emil Jannings facts

5 most recent films

The Blue Angel - 3.5 stars
Faust - 3.5 stars
Tartuffe - 3.0 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
Marlene Dietrich - 3 times - show films
Hans Albers - 3 times - show films
Camilla Horn - 2 times - show films
Yvette Guilbert - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

F.W. Murnau - 4 times - show films
Josef Von Sternberg - 3 times - show films