Tartuffe (film)

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Herr Tartüff
Film poster
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	Weimar Germany
Language	Silent film German intertitles
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Tartuffe (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 Molière'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 Molière'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.

[edit] External links

• Herr Tartüff at the Internet Movie Database
• Herr Tartüff at Allmovie

v • d • e Films directed by F. W. Murnau German films: Der Knabe in Blau (1919) Prinz Kuckuck (1919) • Der Januskopf (1920) • Satanas (1920) • Sehnsucht (1920) • Der Gang in die Nacht (1920) • Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (1920) • Schloß Vogelöd (1921) • Marizza (1922) • Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) • Phantom (1922) • Der Brennende Acker (1922) • Die Austreibung (1923) • Der letzte Mann (1924) • Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (1924) • Herr Tartüff (1926) • Faust (1926) • American films: Sunrise (1927) • Four Devils (1928) • City Girl (1930) • Tabu (1931)