Catalog Num:
FM-L005-1928
The great German silent film actor Emil Jannings gives an Academy Award-winning performance in this Josef von Sternberg masterpiece. As a Czarist general displaced from his Russian homeland, Janings finds himself awaiting the dgrading call to work as a movie extra. By intercutting between the ""defeated"" General and the action of the Russian revolution, von Sternberg depicts how far the high and mighty can fall. Notes: On reserve Spring 2002 for L53 420 Film Theory. Director: Josef von Sternberg. Actors: Emil Jannings . Black and White. Country: Germany. No Subtitles.