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Author:

Tartüff. English.

Title:

Tartuffe / [UFA] ; directed by F.W. Murnau ; [adapted by Carl Mayer ; producer, Erich Pommer].

Publisher:

Grapevine Video,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

1 videocassette (70 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Silent films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.

Other Authors:

Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931.
Mayer, Carl, 1894-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80148641
Pommer, Erich, 1889-1966. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87896237
Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87896209
Krauss, Werner, 1884-1959. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95054070
Valetti, Rosa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87896256
Molière, 1622-1673. Tartuffe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013096562
UFA.
Grapevine Video (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96007959

Notes:

Silent film with English intertitles and a musical score. Emil Jannings (Tartuffe), Werner Krauss (Orgon), Lil Dagover (Elmire), Herman Picha, Rosa Valetti. Adapted from the play by Molière. Originally produced as a motion picture 1925 with title: Tartüff. A foreign film (Germany).

Summary:

In this film within a film, a young actor with a traveling cinema screens a version of Molière's dark comedy about the religious hypocrite who insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family for his gullible old grandfather and the scheming housekeeper who's slowly poisoning her master while hoping to inherit his wealth.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36318264

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)