Emil Jannings Movies

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is...

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the...

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

German documentary about Hollywood

Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...