Emil Jannings

8 films on Best Blurays8 in HD

Emil Jannings (1884–1950) was a German actor, the first to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Between 1926 and 1929, he worked in Hollywood. Upon returning to Germany, he sympathized with the Nazi regime and was one of the advisors to Universum Film-Aktiengesellschaft (UFA), the film studios controlled by Goebbels as a propaganda weapon. With the end of World War II and Germany's defeat, his career fell into disgrace.

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Othello (1922)

Leading role · Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Varieté (1925) Blu-ray

Video Notes:

Included as extras in Kino Lorber Varieté (1925) Blu-ray, but it's in really rough conditions even though technically in a 1080p container

Anna Boleyn (1920)

Leading role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC OOP Blu-ray

Video Notes:

MoC OOP Blu-ray is likely to have better encoding than Kino Lorber Blu-ray judging from other movies in the boxset

The Last Laugh (1924)

Leading role · Director: F. W. Murnau

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber and MoC Blu-ray looks essentially the same, with Kino Lorber marginally better https://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?a=1&x=263&y=236&d1=11968&d2=9399&s1=118114&s2=90719&l=1&i=7&go=1

4.0

Tartuffe (1925)

Leading role · Director: F. W. Murnau

Video format: 1080p Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

MoC

Video Notes:

MoC vs Kino Lorber no comparison, Kino Lorber is the same old restoration

3.7

The Blue Angel (1930)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Kino Lorber Blu-ray

Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

All very old restoration, but Kino Lorber > Germany Universum > MoC. Kino Lorber Germany Blu-ray has more noise reduction while English version's noise reduction is kept at minimum. MoC has very week encoding and crushed blacks.

Sources:

Best Audio:

2001 Kino Lorber DVD or 2003 Eureka DVD

3.8

The Last Command (1928)

Leading role · Director: Josef von Sternberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion Blu-ray although MoC OOP Blu-ray looks similar, it's likely slightly worse

Best Audio:

Only the MoC edition has the Gaylord Carter organ score from the old VHS/LaserDisc release while Criterion has only the orchestral score by Robert Israel and electronic/percussion score by Alloy Orchestra.

4.0