Herr Tartüff
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| Herr Tartüff | |
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| Directed by | F. W. Murnau |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
| Written by | Carl Mayer |
| Starring | Hermann Picha Rose Valetti Werner Krauss Lil Dagover Lucie Hoeflich Emil Jannings |
| Cinematography | Karl W. Freund |
| Release date(s) |  January 25, 1926 July 24, 1927 |
| Running time | 4 reels |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | Silent |
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Herr Tartüff is a German silent film produced by Erich Pommer for UFA and released in 1926. It was directed by F. W. Murnau, photographed by Karl Freund and written by Carl Mayer from Moliére's original play.
The film starred Emil Jannings as Tartuffe, Lil Dagover as Elmire and Werner Krauss as Orgon.
Although retaining the basic plot, Murnau and Mayer pared down Moliére's play, eliminating most of the secondary characters and concentrating on the triangle of Orgon, Elmire and Tartuffe. They also introduced a framing device, whereby the story of Tartuffe becomes a film-within-a-film, shown by a young actor as a device to warn his grandfather about his unctuous but evil housekeeper.
| Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau |
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