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Herr Tartuffe DVD
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A devious housekeeper convinces her master to cut his worthy grandson out of his will and to leave the riches to her instead The grandson disguised as the projectionist of a travelling cinema show flatters his way into the home to project a film of Tartuffe in an attempt to open his grandfather&s eyes F W Murnau made this film adaptation of Moliere&s satire for UFA early in 1925 and it was released the following year shortly followed by Faust By presenting the play as a film-within-a-film Murnau takes the opportunity to place the material in a contemporary setting sandwiched inside a morality lesson about greed and hypocrisy Unjustly neglected for decades perhaps because of
its low-key nature compared with Murnau&s more grand masterpieces this delightful curiosity is more than a mere trifle Tartuffe affirms Murnau as a master of multifarious cinematic disciplines from the set-based dreams of Faust and Sunrise to the naturalist landscapes of Nosferatu City Girl and Tabu In Tartuffe we find an intimate Murnau relying on close-ups and the performances of his actors to create magic Emil Jannings plays Tartuffe with creepy panache in a tour-de-force turn alongside Lil Dagover and Werner Krauss Restored in 2002 by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv BerlinKoblenz and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung of Wiesbaden this DVD contains the best surviving version of the film featuring German intertitles optional English subtitles tinting and is presented at the correct speed
Actors Hermann Picha Rosa Valetti Andre Mattoni Werner Krauss & Lil DagoverDirector FW MurnauCertificate Universal Suitable for AllYear 1926Screen Fullscreen 43Languages SILENT - Dolby DigitalSubtitles German intertitles ; English subtitlesDuration 1 hour and 4 minutes (approx)
its low-key nature compared with Murnau&s more grand masterpieces this delightful curiosity is more than a mere trifle Tartuffe affirms Murnau as a master of multifarious cinematic disciplines from the set-based dreams of Faust and Sunrise to the naturalist landscapes of Nosferatu City Girl and Tabu In Tartuffe we find an intimate Murnau relying on close-ups and the performances of his actors to create magic Emil Jannings plays Tartuffe with creepy panache in a tour-de-force turn alongside Lil Dagover and Werner Krauss Restored in 2002 by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv BerlinKoblenz and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung of Wiesbaden this DVD contains the best surviving version of the film featuring German intertitles optional English subtitles tinting and is presented at the correct speed
Actors Hermann Picha Rosa Valetti Andre Mattoni Werner Krauss & Lil DagoverDirector FW MurnauCertificate Universal Suitable for AllYear 1926Screen Fullscreen 43Languages SILENT - Dolby DigitalSubtitles German intertitles ; English subtitlesDuration 1 hour and 4 minutes (approx)
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