Emil Jannings is the doorman of the elegant Atlantic Hotel. He is proud of his uniform and function, and respected by his community. Read More »
Tag Archives: F.W. Murnau
City Girl (1930) – F.W. Murnau
Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. Read More »
Finances of the Grand Duke / Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924) F.W. Murnau, Mady Christians, Harry Liedtke, Robert Scholtz
Director F.W. Murnau and scriptwriter Thea von Harbou both took a change of pace Read More »
Journey into the Night (1921) F.W. Murnau
Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. Read More »
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans / Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau, George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city Read More »
Phantom (1922) F.W. Murnau, Alfred Abel
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving Read More »
Tartuffe (1925) F.W. Murnau, Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Drama
Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance. Read More »
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) F.W. Murnau, Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Drama, Romance, Adventure
In his final film, F.W. Murnau presents the tale of two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora in the South Pacific. Read More »
Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau, Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Fantasy, Horror
Wisbourg, Germany based estate agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok’s castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase an isolated house in Wisbourg. Read More »
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage / Faust: A German Folk Legend (1926) F.W. Murnau, Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. During a plague, Faust despairs and burns his books after failing to stop death; Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day’s return to youth. Mephisto is clever, timing the end of this 24 hours as Faust embraces the beautiful Duchess of Parma. Faust trades his soul for youth. Some time later, he’s bored, and demands on Easter Sunday that Mephisto take him home. Faust promptly sees and falls in love with the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?
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