UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15274007
Format:
ca. 88 min
Content:
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg̷s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent melodrama and a witty send-up of the Hollywood machine, featuring virtuoso cinematography, grandly designed sets and effects, and rousing Russian Revolution sequences. Towering above all is the passionate, heartbreaking Jannings, whose portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality is one for the history books. (Criterion)
Note:
Two scores, one by Robert Israel and another by Alloy Orchestra
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New visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
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Orig.: USA, 1928
In:
3 silent classics by Josef von Sternberg, [New York, NY], 2019, (2019)
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
The last command (Film, 1928)
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Filmanalyse
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
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Film
Author information:
Jannings, Emil
Author information:
Biró, Lajos
Author information:
Sternberg, Josef von