Emil Jannings — Actor (22)
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The Patriot (1928)
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Ernst Lubitsch actor: Emil Jannings / Florence Vidor …
other title: Lo zar folle / Le Patriote …
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
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The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
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Ernst Lubitsch actor: Pola Negri / Emil Jannings …
other title: Gli occhi della mummia / Die Augen der Mumie Ma …
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 "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
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The Film in the Film (1924)
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Friedrich Porges actor: Ernst Deutsch / E.A. Dupont …
other title: Der Film im Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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A Night of Horror (1917)
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Richard Oswald / Arthur Robison actor: Emil Jannings / Werner Krauss …
other title: Nächte des Grauens / Nuit d'horreur
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
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Tartuffe (1926)
Herr Tartüff
F. W. Murnau actor: Emil Jannings / Werner Krauss …
other title: Tartufo / Herr Tartüff …
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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The Last Command (1928)
The Last Command
Josef von Sternberg actor: Emil Jannings / Evelyn Brent …
other title: Crepuscolo di gloria / Sein letzter Befehl …
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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Faust (1926)
Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
F. W. Murnau actor: Gösta Ekman / Emil Jannings …
other title: Fausto / Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage …
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
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Quo Vadis? (1924)
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Gabriellino D'Annunzio / Georg Jacoby actor: Emil Jannings / Elena Sangro …
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.
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Hitler's Hollywood (2017)
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Rüdiger Suchsland actor: Rüdiger Suchsland / Hans Henrik Wöhler …
other title: Hitlers Hollywood / Quand Hitler faisait son cinéma (1933-1945) …
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)
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Waxworks (1924)
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
Leo Birinski / Paul Leni actor: Emil Jannings / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Il gabinetto delle figure di cera / Das Wachsfigurenkabinett …
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
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Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)
Kohlhiesels Töchter
Ernst Lubitsch actor: Emil Jannings / Henny Porten …
other title: Kohlhiesels Töchter / Les Filles de Kohlhiesel …
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...