
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor. He was the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.434 |
Birthday | 1884-07-22 |
Place of Birth | Rorschach, Switzerland |
Also Known As | Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, |

1926

Faust
7.9/356
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
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Faust

1921

Danton
5.7/3
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
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Keimendes Leben. 2. Teil

1924

The Last Laugh
7.8/309
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
6.445/64
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
6.4/31
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
6.4/12
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
6.4/26
The story of Madame du Barry, 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
5.5/1
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
7.3/84
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
5/3
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
7.176/71
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
6.9/24
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

Liebe macht blind
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Liebe macht blind

1927

The Way of All Flesh
6.9/6
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
6.6/13
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
6.814/35
The 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
5.4/6
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?
5.833/6
"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
5.3/9
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
5.9/15
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
6.3/6
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
5.8/4
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
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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
7.2/11
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspec...
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The Broken Jug

1943

Altes Herz wird wieder jung
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Altes Herz wird wieder jung

1937

The Sovereign
5/2
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?
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Where Is Mr. Belling?

1935

The Old and The Young King
5.7/3
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
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
0/0
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
7.5/8
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
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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

Die Tochter des Mehemed
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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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Die Tochter des 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
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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
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German silent film
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Der 10. Pavillon der Zitadelle

1917

A Night of Horror
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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
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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
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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'
8/2
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'

1916

Life is a Dream
0/0
A silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Life is a Dream

1914

Dear Eva
0/0
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Dear Eva

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
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Der Morphinist

1922

Othello
6.9/12
Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emi...
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Othello

1918

Fuhrmann Henschel
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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
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Keimendes Leben

1934

Der schwarze Walfisch
0/0
Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.
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Der schwarze Walfisch

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
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Der letzte Appell

1923

The Tragedy of Love
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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

1923

The Countess of Paris
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The Countess of Paris

1922

Peter the Great
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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
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"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
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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
7.5/1
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
0/0
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Die Brüder Karamasoff

1920

The Great Light
6/1
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
7.3/313
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
0/0
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
0/0
Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...
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The Rats

2017

100 Years of the UFA
5/1
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
6/1
German documentary about Hollywood
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The Movie City of Hollywood

1928

Sins of the Fathers
6/1
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
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Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach

2024

Cruel Images
0/0
An examination of the 1941 German blockbuster "Uncle Krüger", a film about the Boer War and the British concentration camps in south Africa, shot whil...
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Cruel Images

1920

Colombine - Die Braut des Apachen
0/0
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