Emil Jannings Movies

German documentary about Hollywood

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

German silent film

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.