Emil Jannings Movies

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...

An adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel.

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Today is a fateful day for village judge Adam. Who broke Widow Kull’s jug fleeing head over heels after his nightly visit to her daughter? As...

German silent film

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

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...

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...