Emil Jannings
Bekannt Fir: Acting
Gebuertsdag: 1884-07-22
Gebuertsuert: Rorschach, Switzerland
Och bekannt als: Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz
Faust
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
Fräisetzung : 1926.10.13Popularitéit : 13.268
Danton
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...
Fräisetzung : 1921.05.03Popularitéit : 1.874
The Last Laugh
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Fräisetzung : 1924.12.23Popularitéit : 5.669
Waxworks
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,...
Fräisetzung : 1924.11.13Popularitéit : 6.083
The Eyes of the Mummy
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...
Fräisetzung : 1918.10.03Popularitéit : 1.544
Hitler's Hollywood
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...
Fräisetzung : 2017.02.23Popularitéit : 4.035
The Merry Jail
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
Fräisetzung : 1917.11.30Popularitéit : 1.352
Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Fräisetzung : 1919.09.18Popularitéit : 4.016
Darling of the Gods
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...
Fräisetzung : 1930.10.13Popularitéit : 1.777
The Last Command
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.
Fräisetzung : 1928.01.21Popularitéit : 5.157
The Patriot
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...
Fräisetzung : 1928.09.01Popularitéit : 1.673
Tartuffe
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...
Fräisetzung : 1926.01.25Popularitéit : 4.9
Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...
Fräisetzung : 1920.12.03Popularitéit : 3.135
The Way of All Flesh
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He...
Fräisetzung : 1927.10.01Popularitéit : 1.627
The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Fräisetzung : 1922.02.21Popularitéit : 3.844
Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Fräisetzung : 1925.11.16Popularitéit : 3.835
The Dismissal
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....
Fräisetzung : 1942.09.15Popularitéit : 1.396
Quo Vadis?
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that...
Fräisetzung : 1924.10.01Popularitéit : 1.601
Husbands or Lovers
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
Fräisetzung : 1924.11.21Popularitéit : 8.993
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...
Fräisetzung : 1920.03.08Popularitéit : 2.03
Algol: Tragedy of Power
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
Fräisetzung : 1920.09.03Popularitéit : 3.126
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....
Fräisetzung : 1939.12.30Popularitéit : 2.306
All for Money
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,...
Fräisetzung : 1923.11.04Popularitéit : 0.725
The Broken Jug
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the...
Fräisetzung : 1937.10.18Popularitéit : 1.734
The Sovereign
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...
Fräisetzung : 1937.03.17Popularitéit : 0.71
The Making of a King
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Fräisetzung : 1935.01.02Popularitéit : 1.291
Traumulus
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...
Fräisetzung : 1936.01.23Popularitéit : 1.487
The Tempest
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
Fräisetzung : 1932.01.22Popularitéit : 0.641
Uncle Krüger
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...
Fräisetzung : 1941.01.02Popularitéit : 2.412
When Four Do the Same
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
Fräisetzung : 1917.11.16Popularitéit : 0.962
Lulu
The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the...
Fräisetzung : 1917.11.22Popularitéit : 0.526
Die Tochter des Mehemed
An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen. van Zuylen is outraged, and refuses. Years...
Fräisetzung : 1919.08.15Popularitéit : 0.585
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...
Fräisetzung : 2011.04.03Popularitéit : 3.626
Stein unter Steinen
A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
Fräisetzung : 1917.01.01Popularitéit : 0.576
A Night of Horror
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
Fräisetzung : 1917.02.09Popularitéit : 2.258
Rose Bernd
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.
Fräisetzung : 1919.10.05Popularitéit : 1.188
Life is Short
Button's second film, a commercially succesful comedy. Decades later critics wrote that many elements of Button's later films are clearly visible.
Fräisetzung : 1929.02.07Popularitéit : 0.001
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
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...
Fräisetzung : 1920.11.11Popularitéit : 2.338
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
Fräisetzung : 2003.12.17Popularitéit : 1.716
Dear Eva
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Fräisetzung : 1914.01.01Popularitéit : 0.714
Life is a Dream
A silent movie by Robert Wiene
Fräisetzung : 1916.01.01Popularitéit : 1.429
Frau Eva
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
Fräisetzung : 1916.02.01Popularitéit : 0.886
Othello
Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...
Fräisetzung : 1922.02.08Popularitéit : 1.413
Der schwarze Walfisch
Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.
Fräisetzung : 1934.03.02Popularitéit : 0.413
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...
Fräisetzung : 1940.07.31Popularitéit : 2.615
The Tragedy of Love
The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin,...
Fräisetzung : 1923.09.21Popularitéit : 2.392
The Street of Sin
"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named...
Fräisetzung : 1928.05.26Popularitéit : 0.744
Betrayal
André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds...
Fräisetzung : 1929.05.11Popularitéit : 0.868
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...
Fräisetzung : 1924.06.26Popularitéit : 0.669
The Love Goddesses
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...
Fräisetzung : 1965.03.03Popularitéit : 3.862
The Great Light
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...
Fräisetzung : 1920.05.07Popularitéit : 0.577
The Blue Angel
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in...
Fräisetzung : 1930.04.01Popularitéit : 7.713
Vendetta
In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte...
Fräisetzung : 1919.08.22Popularitéit : 1.601
The Rats
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...
Fräisetzung : 1921.07.29Popularitéit : 1.757
100 Years of the UFA
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...
Fräisetzung : 2017.08.28Popularitéit : 1.555
The Movie City of Hollywood
German documentary about Hollywood
Fräisetzung : 1928.11.18Popularitéit : 1.065
Sins of the Fathers
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...
Fräisetzung : 1928.12.28Popularitéit : 1.201