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1945
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1943
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Ohm Krüger
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1941
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Robert Koch
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1939
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Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as...
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Artistic Advisor, Mathias Clausen
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1937
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Adam (Emil Jannings) is the eternally inebriated magistrate of a small Dutch town. While carousing drunken around town late...
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Adam
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1937
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Professor Niemeyer (Emil Jannings) is known to his students as "Traumulus," or "The Dreamer," in referring to his easygoing...
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Direktor Professor Niemeyer
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1936
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Alte und Junge Kaiser is "blood-and-honor" Nazi propaganda travelling under the guise of historical pageantry. The great Emil...
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Freidrich Wilhelm, First
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1935
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Schwarze Walfisch (The Black Whale) is the German-language version of the Marcel Pagnol masterpiece Fanny. Replacing the...
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1934
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Also known as Tempest and Storm of Passion, Stuerme der Leidenschaft was the first of Robert Siodmak's two directorial...
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Gustav Bumke
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1932
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Albert Winkelmann
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1931
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Marlene Dietrich became an immediate international star on the strength of her performance as the temptress Lola Frohlich in...
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Prof. Immanuel Rath
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1930
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Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer...
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Albert Winkelmann
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1930
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Poldi Moser
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1929
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Ernst Lubitsch, well-known for his sophisticated romantic comedies, proved that he was equally adept at historical drama in...
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Paul I, the Emperor of Russia
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1928
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The great German actor Emil Jannings closed out the American phase of his film career with the Paramount part-talkie...
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Wilhelm Spengler
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1928
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Love Makes Us Blind was the English-language title of the "all star" German romantic drama Liebe Macht Blind. Emil Jannings,...
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1928
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Street of Sin was the final American film of Scandinavian director Mauritz Stiller, whose inability to adapt to Hollywood...
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"Basher" Bill
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1928
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Josef vonSternberg's The Last Command was inspired by the true story of General Lodijenski, a Russian aristocrat who arrived...
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Gen. Dolgorucki,Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
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1928
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How typical of the great German director F. W. Murnau that he used Moliere's scathing satirical comedy Tartuffe as a...
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1927
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This was Emil Jannings' first American-made picture, and his portrayal is reminiscent of his characters in his previous...
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August Schiller
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1927
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The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the...
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The Husband
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1927
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Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox Studios. Emil Jannings...
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Mephisto
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1926
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Although not as much of a cinematic landmark as the 1913 version of Quo Vadis?, this 1924 Italian adaptation of the...
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Nero
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1925
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When American audiences were permitted to see German filmmaker E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece Variety, it was the story of...
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Boss Huller
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1925
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1925
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1925
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1924
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F.W. Murnau's German silent classic The Last Laugh (Der Letze Mann) stars Emil Jannings as the doorman of a posh Berlin...
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The doorman
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1924
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German filmmaker Paul Leni functioned as both director and production designer for the Caligariesque Waxworks...
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1924
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Harun al Raschid
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1923
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During his silent film career in Germany, Emil Jannings starred in a number of historical dramas; here he plays the powerful...
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1923
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While he was working in his native Germany, Ernst Lubitsch directed a number of historical pictures -- although this one is...
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Pharao Amenes
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1922
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Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be...
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Othello
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1922
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Considering the poor quality of this UFA-produced melodrama starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings, it's quite likely the two...
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Radu
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1922
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Henry VIII
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1921
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Passion wasn't the only spectacular Ernst Lubitsch film which he made in Germany before coming to the U.S. The ten-reel...
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Henry VIII
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1921
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A father-son conflict set against the tumultuous background of the First World War lies at the center of this high-class soap...
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S. I. Rupp
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1921
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When this German-produced film reached the U.S., it was touted as the first Pola Negri film that wasn't a costume drama. In...
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1921
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aka Danton With Emil Jannings as George Jacques Danton and Werner Kraus (who played the title character in The Cabinet of Dr....
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1921
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Anne Boleyn(Henny Porten) is coveted by King Henry VIII (Emil Jannings) when he tires of Queen Katherine. The ruler desires...
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1920
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1920
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1920
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Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German...
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Louis XV
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1919
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1918
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1917
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1917
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1916
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1916
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1914
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