Emil Jannings

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich ...

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue ...

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.

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s play “Tartuffe” in order to expose the old man’s ...

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

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

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.

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 ...

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting ...

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 ...

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.