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Voidsville Follies

Works by Emil Jannings (3)

Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Kohlhiesels Töchter)

Ernst Lubitsch (director/writer)
Theodor Sparkuhl (cinematographer)
Hanns Kräly (writer)
Henny Porten (lead)
Emil Jannings (lead)
Gustav von Wangenheim (lead)
Jakob Tiedtke (lead)
Messter (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1920
Minutes: 60

Lightweight but amusing tale of an unintentional taming of the shrew.

Featured elements:

: abuse; alienation; bimbo; comedy; dance-polka; dark comedy; family; forbidden love; infidelity; metatheatre; patriarchy; sexuality; shrew; slapstick; treachery

Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)

F.W. Murnau (director)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Karl Freund (cinematographer)
Emil Jannings (lead)
Emilie Kurz (lead)
Georg John (lead)
Erich Pommer (producer)
UFA (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1924
Minutes: 88

There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear. Stunning on first view, this lingers in the mind, then gets even better when seen again.

Featured elements:

: aging; forsaken; melodrama; metatheatre; modernism; social commentary; urbanization

The Last Command

Josef von Sternberg (director)
Bert Glennon (cinematographer)
John F. Goodrich (writer)
Lajos Biró (author)
Emil Jannings (lead)
Evelyn Brent (lead)
William Powell (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1928
Minutes: 89

A tale told in two cities: a melodrama in Czarist Russia, and a lampoon in neo-Czarist Hollywood. The lampoon is fun, the melodrama is unconvincing. Still, all the performances were strong enough to carry the weak, nonsensical story. Bonus: discovering that William Powell needed no sharp suits or witty dialogue to help him ooze sophisticated style. And, of course, any flick gets a thumbs up for a train crash.

Featured elements:

: abuse; action; aging; alienation; armed conflict; backstage; comedy; death scene; displaced persons; execution; flashback; Hollywood; lynching; melodrama; parody; patriarchy; patriotism; poverty; prejudice; prison; psycho; rescue; revenge; romance; Russia; servitude; unemployment; uprising; USA; veteran

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