Emil Jannings

Tanrı'nın varlığını ve hayatın anlamını sorgulamakta olan Faust gerçeği aramaya karar verir ve bu yolculuğu esnasında arzularına yenik düşmeye başlar. Mephisto ise Faust'a gençlik ve dirilik olan gerçekliği vaat etmektedir. Faust, kanıyla bu gençlik anlaşmasını imzaladığında şeytanın yüzü Mephisto'nun laneti tarafından kuşatılmaya başlayacaktır. Biçimsel özellikleriyle Alman Ekspresyonizmi'nin sinema tarihine yön veren filmleri arasında yer alan Faust, kuşkusuz hala tecrübe edilmesi gereken seyir deneyimlerinin başında gelmektedir.

Son Adam 1924 Almanya yapımı siyah beyaz dramatik filmdir. Özgün adı Der Letzte Mann olan bu sessiz film ABD'de The Last Laugh (Son Gülüş) adıyla gösterime sunulmuştu.Senaryosunu Carl Mayer'in yazdığı filmi sessiz Alman sinemasının yaratıcı sinemacısı F.W. Murnau yönetmiş, başrolünde ise Emil Jannings oynamıştı. Çoklarına göre Murnau'nun başyapıtı sayılan bu film çevrildiği yıl o zamana kadar yapılmış en iyi film olarak değerlendirilmişti. Filmin görüntülerini dönemin en önemli görüntü yönetmenlerinden Karl Freund çekmiştir. Freund kamerayı o denli devrimci ve kıvrak bir üslupla kullanmıştı ki, Carl Mayer senaryoyu yeni kamera hareketlerine göre yeniden yazmak zorunda kalmıştı.

Immanuel Rath, yaşlı ve bekar bir profesördür. Öğrencilerinden duyduğu "Mavi Melek" adlı gece kulübüne onları yakalamak amacıyla gider. Gizlice gittiği gece kulübünde Lola Lola adlı dansçıya herkes gibi o da tutulur. Artık her akşam Lola'yı ziyaret etmeden duramaz hale gelir. Gece hayatı tıpkı bir girdap gibi onu içine çeker. Sürekli bir hayal alemi içinde derslerde bile Lola'yı düşünerek kendinden geçer. Lola'nın başka erkeklerle olmasından ölümüne rahatsız olduğu için onun tüm ihtiyaçlarını karşılamaya çalışır. Bu onun giderek çöküşüne yol açmaya başlar.

André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds herself pregnant and is forced by her father to marry Poldi Moser, the mayor of the small Swiss town. Moser and Vroni are happy together, and two sons are born to them. André returns to the village periodically and finally asks Vroni to go away with him. She refuses, and he writes her an angry note. That evening, Vroni and André are involved in a toboggan accident; Vroni is killed outright, and André is fatally injured. Moser finds André's note and goes to him, demanding of the dying man to know which of the boys is in fact André's child. Thinking to protect his own son, André informs Moser that Moser's own son is his (André's) son. Moser swears vengeance on the child but relents when he realizes that he loves both boys equally.

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- Re-created for your entertainment in the most colossal drama produced", reads an ad in the Daily Argus of New York. Unione Cinematografica Italiana's lavish production of the oft-told tale stars Emil Jannings as Nero.

King Pausole is known for his relaxed rule and having a different wife for every day of the year. Princess Aline, the king's favorite, leaves the kingdom with Giglio, a modern, adventurous pilot, disrupting the kingdom's orderly hedonism. The king abandons his daily duties to hunt for his daughter, bringing him into contact with a world outside his own pampered experience.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs off with another man. His wife finds out what happened. Complications ensue.

All throughout his entire life, Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann let his career run roughshod over his personal life. He had no wife, because he was married instead to his chocolate factory. Now he’s old and gray, and his relatives, who are greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket so they can get their hands on his worldly goods, keep their distance from him. Then one day, an astonished Hoffmann is visited by a young woman named Brigitte, who asserts, that she’s his granddaughter. Suddenly, it all comes back to the old man: as a young man, he had a short, but intense, love affair, which he had to end on the insistence of his father.

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.