Emil Jannings

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Emil Jannings - what members say

Faust review by from London UK

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 review by from leamington

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 review by Zamy from London

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

The Blue Angel (2 discs) on DVD (1930)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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This Josef Von Sternberg film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel PROFESSOR UNRAT, made Marlene Dietrich a celebrity and began a tumultuous relationship between star and director that spanned Sternberg's most creative period. The film features Emil Jannings as Dr. Immanuel Rath, a provincial prep ..read more »

67% from 1,281 member

Faust on DVD (1926)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Director: F.W. Murnau
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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 »

72% from 944 members

Tartuffe on DVD (1926)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss
Director: F.W. Murnau
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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 »

61% from 211 members

The Last Laugh on DVD (1924)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Kurt Hiller, Emelie Kurtz
Director: F.W. Murnau
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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 »

72% from 787 members

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

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

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

Marlene Dietrich - 3 times - show films
Kurt Gerron - 3 times - show films
Hans Albers - 3 times - show films
Gosta Ekman - 2 times - show films
Camilla Horn - 2 times - show films

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