Tartuffe

7.3
1,136
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- Original title
- Herr Tartüff
- Year
- 1925
- Running time
- 64 min.
- Country
Germany
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Carl Mayer. Play: Molière
- Cast
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- Emil Jannings
- Werner Krauss
- Lil Dagover
- Hermann Picha
- Rosa Valetti
- André Mattoni
- Lucie Höflich
- Camilla Horn
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- Music
Giuseppe Becce (Silent Movie)- Cinematography
Karl Freund (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy. Drama | Silent Film. German Expressionism
- Movie Groups
- Molière Adaptations
- Synopsis
- In Tartuffe, Murnau revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. To endow the story with contemporary relevance, Murnau frames Moliére's tale with a modern-day plot concerning a housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate.
The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F. W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind.-
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