Emil Jannings Movies

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...

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

German documentary about Hollywood

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....

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

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...

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

An adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel.

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

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...

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....

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

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...

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...

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