Emil Jannings
Birthday: 1884-07-22
Place of Birth: Rorschach, Switzerland
Biography: Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor, the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Between 1926 and 1929, he worked in Hollywood. Upon returning to Germany, he sympathized with the Nazi regime and was one of the advisors to Universum Film-Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), the film studios controlled by Goebbels as a propaganda weapon. With the end of World War II and Germany's defeat, his career fell into disgrace.
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Faust
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and praye...
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Danton
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...
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The Last Laugh
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face...
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Waxworks
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan...
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The Eyes of the Mummy
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's ...
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Hitler's Hollywood
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
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The Merry Jail
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position...
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Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the Fr...
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Darling of the Gods
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars ...
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The Last Command
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie...
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The Patriot
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahle...
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Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to ...
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Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry l...
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The Way of All Flesh
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller wh...
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The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countri...
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Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the...
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The Dismissal
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandso...
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Quo Vadis?
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the b...
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Husbands or Lovers
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive...
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Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder...
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Algol: Tragedy of Power
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire w...
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his dis...
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All for Money
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the rever...
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The Broken Jug
Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels af...
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The Sovereign
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emi...
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The Old and The Young King
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became kn...
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Traumulus
This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teache...
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The Tempest
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s no...
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Uncle Krüger
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politi...
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When Four Do the Same
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' dau...
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Lulu
The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clow...
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The Daughter of Mehemed
An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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Stein unter Steinen
A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being r...
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A Night of Horror
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close t...
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Rose Bernd
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and ...
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergenc...
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The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany....
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Frau Eva
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remo...
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Othello
Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him...
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Fuhrmann Henschel
After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings h...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirl...
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The Tragedy of Love
The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club ...
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Peter the Great
Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreig...
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The Street of Sin
"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Arm...
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Betrayal
André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a...
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The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the diff...
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The Great Light
Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master build...
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The Blue Angel
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola...
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Vendetta
In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. Sh...
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The Rats
Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films ...
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100 Years of the UFA
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...
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Sins of the Fathers
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he st...
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