Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor, the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Between 1926 and 1929, he worked in Hollywood. Upon returning to Germany, he sympathized with the Nazi regime and was one of the advisors to Universum Film-Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), the film studios controlled by Goebbels as a propaganda weapon. With the end of World War II and Germany's defeat, his career fell into disgrace.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4358 |
| Birthday | 1884-07-22 |
| Place of Birth | Rorschach, Switzerland |
| Also Known As | Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, |
1926
Faust
7.904/392
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
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Faust
1921
Danton
6.5/4
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries i...
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Danton
1918
Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
10/1
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Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil
1924
The Last Laugh
7.76/352
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.
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The Last Laugh
1924
Waxworks
6.43/71
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 writing,...
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Waxworks
1918
The Eyes of the Mummy
5.4/24
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mum...
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The Eyes of the Mummy
2017
Hitler's Hollywood
6.453/32
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collap...
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Hitler's Hollywood
1917
The Merry Jail
6.385/13
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
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The Merry Jail
1919
Madame DuBarry
6.5/29
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Madame DuBarry
1930
Darling of the Gods
6.25/2
Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is...
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Darling of the Gods
1928
The Last Command
7.333/90
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.
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The Last Command
1928
The Patriot
5.75/4
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad ki...
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The Patriot
1926
Tartuffe
7.23/76
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who co...
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Tartuffe
1920
Anna Boleyn
6.875/28
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 turmoil in...
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Anna Boleyn
1926
Love is Blind
10/1
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Love is Blind
1927
The Way of All Flesh
6.5/9
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is...
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The Way of All Flesh
1922
The Loves of Pharaoh
6.5/13
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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The Loves of Pharaoh
1925
Variety
6.655/42
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
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Variety
1942
The Dismissal
6.071/7
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. an...
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The Dismissal
1924
Quo Vadis?
6.286/7
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed...
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Quo Vadis?
1924
Husbands or Lovers
5.6/10
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
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Husbands or Lovers
1920
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
6.028/18
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, n...
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Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1920
Algol: Tragedy of Power
6.55/10
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
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Algol: Tragedy of Power
1939
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
6.6/5
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....
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1923
All for Money
8/1
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, un...
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All for Money
1937
The Broken Jug
7.231/13
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 the tria...
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The Broken Jug
1943
Altes Herz wird wieder jung
8/1
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Altes Herz wird wieder jung
1937
The Sovereign
5.667/3
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 b...
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The Sovereign
1945
Where Is Mr. Belling?
8/1
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Where Is Mr. Belling?
1935
The Old and The Young King
6/4
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
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The Old and The Young King
1936
Traumulus
6.5/6
This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled ab...
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Traumulus
1932
The Tempest
9/1
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
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The Tempest
1941
Uncle Krüger
7.444/9
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 Br...
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Uncle Krüger
1917
When Four Do the Same
0/0
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
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When Four Do the Same
1917
Lulu
5/1
The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the nobl...
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Lulu
1919
The Daughter of Mehemed
7/1
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 later...
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The Daughter of Mehemed
2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
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 Al...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1917
Stein unter Steinen
0/0
A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.
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Stein unter Steinen
1917
Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle
0/0
German silent film
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Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle
1917
A Night of Horror
6/1
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
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A Night of Horror
1919
Rose Bernd
0/0
An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.
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Rose Bernd
1920
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
8/1
A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the p...
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Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
2003
The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
8/3
This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.
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The Making of 'The Last Laugh'
1914
Dear Eva
0/0
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Dear Eva
1916
Life is a Dream
9/1
A silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Life is a Dream
1916
Frau Eva
0/0
An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.
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Frau Eva
1916
Passionels Tagebuch
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Passionels Tagebuch
1916
Der Morphinist
0/0
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Der Morphinist
1922
Othello
6.885/13
Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
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Othello
1918
Fuhrmann Henschel
0/0
After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.
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Fuhrmann Henschel
2002
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
7/1
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Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
1918
Keimendes Leben
0/0
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Keimendes Leben
1934
The Black Whale
8/1
Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.
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The Black Whale
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
6.5/3
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeche...
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Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1939
Der letzte Appell
0/0
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Der letzte Appell
1923
The Countess of Paris
7/1
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The Countess of Paris
1923
The Tragedy of Love
7/1
The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin, a old-sc...
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The Tragedy of Love
1922
Peter the Great
7/1
Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to u...
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Peter the Great
1928
The Street of Sin
8/1
"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named El...
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The Street of Sin
1929
Betrayal
9/1
André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds herself...
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Betrayal
1924
The Film in the Film
7.25/2
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of...
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The Film in the Film
1921
Die Brüder Karamasoff
6/1
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Die Brüder Karamasoff
1920
The Great Light
7/2
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 giv...
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The Great Light
1930
The Blue Angel
7.321/361
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in...
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The Blue Angel
1919
Vendetta
8/1
In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte...
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Vendetta
1921
The Rats
10/1
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The Rats
2017
100 Years of the UFA
4.5/2
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and t...
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100 Years of the UFA
1928
The Movie City of Hollywood
7/2
German documentary about Hollywood
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The Movie City of Hollywood
1928
Sins of the Fathers
8/2
A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...
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Sins of the Fathers
1917
Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
0/0
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Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
1920
Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
7/1
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Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
1933
König Pausole
8/1
King Pausole is known for his relaxed rule and having a different wife for every day of the year. Princess Aline, the king's favorite, leaves the king...
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König Pausole
1917
Hoheit Radieschen
0/0
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