Emil Jannings Movies

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

German documentary about Hollywood

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...

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....

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

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...

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,...

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...

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

German silent film

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

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

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...