The Last Laugh

+ intro by programmer Margaret Deriaz

Der letzte Mann

Nosferatu director F. W. Murnau’s landmark work of Weimar cinema details the fall from grace of a hotel doorman.

  • Director

    F. W. Murnau

  • With

    Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft

  • Germany 1924. 90min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    U

  • With score composed by Berklee Silent Film Orchestra

When the elderly doorman of a luxury Berlin hotel loses his coveted position, his life turns upside down, forcing him to face-up to his family and friends’ expectations of him. This study of authority and status features striking editing, distorted dream imagery, and virtuoso cinematography and camera movement. It is one of the crowning achievements of Weimar cinema.

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