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| Genre/Form: | Silent films Feature films Fiction films Motion pictures, German Motion pictures Foreign films DVD-Video discs Drama |
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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
F W Murnau; Carl Mayer; Erich Pommer; Emil Jannings; Hermann Vallentin; Maly Delschaft; Georg John; Timothy Brock; David Shepard; Union Films.; UFA (Firm); Kino International Corporation. |
| OCLC Number: | 47198851 |
| Language Note: | Titleframes in German; credits and words appearing within feature in English. |
| Notes: | Silent film with music soundtrack added (1993). Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924. Special features include: Excerpts from alternate versions ; photo gallery. |
| Credits: | Camera, Karl Freund, Robert Baberske ; art directors, Robert Herlth, Walter RoÌhrig ; music composed and conducted by Timothy Brock ; produced for video by David Shepard. |
| Cast: | Emil Jannings, Hermann Vallentin, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher, Olaf Storm, Emmy Wyda. |
| Performer(s): | Music performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra. |
| Description: | 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD; stereo; full-frame 1.33:1. |
| Other Titles: | Letzte Mann (Motion picture) Last laugh F.W. Murnau's The last laugh |
| Responsibility: | Regie, F.W. Murnau ; written by Carl Meyer ; directed by F.W. Murnau ; produced by Erich Pommer for Union Film-Ufa. |
Abstract:
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
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