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The Last Laugh

Der Letzte Mann

1924

F.W. Murnau

Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz ...

8.2

6,352

Drama It tells the story of an elderly hotel doorman whose world crumbles when he is demoted to lavatory attendant. He is embarrassed by his new position so he tries to hide it, although his life keeps disintegrating anyway.

	Author	Review
United States	Mordaunt Hall The New York Times	"A remarkable piece of direction, with exquisite lighting effects"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"No one before Murnau had ever entirely done away with all written words on the screen (...) He tells his story through shots, angles, moves, facial expressions and easily read visual cues (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr The New York Times	"A masterpiece of the German silent cinema"	POS
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"Freund’s inventive camera work combined with a round of editing-room trickery create ineluctable moods of, respectively, delusional fantasy and outright horror (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Time Out	"Murnau’s masterpiece is one of very few examples of truly pure cinema"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"Karl Freund's ground-breaking and historically important cinematography can still take the breath away (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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