Emil Jannings Movies

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...

German documentary about Hollywood

An adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel.

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.

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

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

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....

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

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

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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