Cast: Emil Jannings

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Max Hiller · Emilie Kurz

Synopsis In The Last Laugh (1924), an aging hotel doorman takes immense pride in his prestigious uniform, which symbolizes his dignity and status. When he is abruptly demoted to a lowly washroom attendant, stripped of his beloved uniform, he spirals into...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Gösta Ekman · Camilla Horn · William Dieterle

Synopsis In Faust (1926), a silent film masterpiece by F.W. Murnau, an aging alchemist bargains with the demon Mephisto for youth, knowledge, and earthly pleasures. Torn between salvation and damnation, Faust experiences love, power, and despair as Mephisto manipulates his fate....

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Emil Jannings · Kurt Gerron · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis Based on Heinrich Mann's novel "Professor Unrat". Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) is a provincial prep school teacher who becomes incensed when he learns his boys have become infatuated with Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich), a cabaret singer. Heading to the Blue...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Evelyn Brent · William Powell · Jack Raymond

Synopsis A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Emil Jannings · Maly Delschaft · Lya De Putti · Warwick Ward

Synopsis The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Lil Dagover · Hermann Picha

Synopsis In Tartuffe, Murnau revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Hilde Müller · Ludwig Hartau

Synopsis Sumptuous historical recreation qualified as 'the greatest film of all times'. A robust, brutal and cruel Henry VIII played by Emil Jannings contrasts with the innocence of Henny Porten's Anne Boleyn. Two architects directed construction of the replicas of the...

Direction Hans Werckmeister

Cast Emil Jannings · John Gottowt · Hans Adalbert Schlettow · Hanna Ralph

Synopsis An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Jakob Tiedtke · Henny Porten · Emil Jannings · Gustav von Wangenheim

Synopsis 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's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Biensfeldt · Friedrich Kühne · Albert Basserman

Synopsis Devotion to a beautiful sclave causes war between Pharoah Menes and the King of Ethiopia. But the girl loves Ramphis. This was the most spectacular film produced till then in Europe, with an impressive reconstruction of the pyramids, temples, deserts...

Direction Paul Leni · Leo Birinsky

Cast Emil Jannings · Conrad Veidt · Werner Krauss · William Dieterle

Synopsis The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look athe owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models,...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Harry Liedtke · Kitty Dewall · Emil Jannings · Ossi Oswalda

Synopsis A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Max Laurence · Harry Liedtke

Direction Hans Steinhoff · Karl Anton · Herbert Maisch

Cast Emil Jannings · Lucie Höflich · Werner Hinz · Ernst Schröder

Direction Carl Froelich · Dimitri Buchowetzki

Cast Fritz Kortner · Bernhard Goetzke · Emil Jannings · Hermann Thimig

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Emil Jannings · Conrad Veidt · Maria Bard

Direction Friedrich Porges

Cast Ernst Deutsch · Ewald André Dupont · Richard Eichberg · Maria Jacobini

Synopsis An educational film about the technological and artistic development of cinematography.

Direction Richard Oswald · Arthur Robison

Cast Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Laurence Köhler · Hans Mierendorff

Synopsis An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Direction Conrad Wiene · Robert Wiene

Cast Bruno Decarli · Emil Jannings · Emil Rameau · Alexander Antalffy