Tartuffe (Blu-ray)
3.1K
ratings
7.1/10
|
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
|
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1925
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Emil Jannings & Lil Dagover | |
| Performer: | Rosa Valetti & Werner Krauss | |
| Directed by | F.W. Murnau | |
| Screenwriting by | Carl Mayer | |
| Composition by | Guiseppe Becce | |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer | |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Freund |
Entertainment Reviews:
80%
79%
Rating: 2/5 --
Whatever else may be said about it, the picture is heavy and primitive.
Full Review
New York Times
The mise en scene is beautifully modulated and the performances -- by Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, and Werner Krauss, among others -- are first-rate.
Full Review
Chicago Reader
While the film is arguably minor Murnau, it remains highly agreeable and full of the director's characteristic visual inventiveness, albeit on a smaller scale.
Full Review
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
One of silent cinema's most rigorous formalist exercises
Full Review
CinePassion
Rating: 4/4 --
One of the first post-modern films (in which characters watch and are aware of films).
Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
[T]he film boasts a memorably grotesque performance from Emil Jannings...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
An expressionistic retelling of the classic Moliere story, Murnau contemporized his version by setting the exploration of morality and hypocrisy amidst a housekeeper's murder plot. Here, the housekeeper (Rosa Valetti) schemes to poison her employer (Hermann Picha) in order to take control of his estate and fortune. However, the employer's grandson (Andre Mattoni) becomes wise to her plot, and shows his grandfather a film of Moliere's TARTUFFE to expose her plan.
Keywords:
23%off
