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Comedy. Drama 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 ... [+]
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April 5, 2007
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Excelente fábula (ni más ni menos que de Molierè) la rodada por Murnau, con la que nos hace reflexionar sobre la vileza del ser humano, que muchas veces se mimetiza de un manera hipócrita, con tan de poder saciar sus ansias de poder o simplemente mantener su estatus social.
El film cuenta con una buena interpretación por parte de uno de los actores mediáticos de la época, como era Emil Jannings.
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