Letzte Mann (Motion picture : 1924) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003085887
Title:
The last laugh / Kino International ; Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; UFA ; direction, F. W. Murnau ; screenplay, Carl Mayer ; [Restored version]: a production of ZDF ; co-produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutsches Filminstitut, in collaboration with ARTE ; Producers [restored version]: Sabine Tomek, Christian Schwalbe.
Edition:
Restored German version.
Publisher:
Kino International,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Emil Jannings. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924. "[R]estored through the cooperation of the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin; the Swiss Cinémathèque, Lausanne; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden." - Opening titles. Released in 2009 as part of the 6 DVD set, Murnau, by Kino International.
Contents:
Special features : Der Letzte Mann, das making of (The making of The last laugh) (n.d. ; 41 min.); original German title sequences ; image gallery.
Summary:
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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