The last laugh [videorecording] / Kino International ; Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; UFA ; direction, F. W. Murnau ; screenplay, Carl Mayer ; [Restored version]: a production of ZDF ; co-produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutsches Filminstitut, in collaboration with ARTE ; Producers [restored version]: Sabine Tomek, Christian Schwalbe.
Murnau, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931.; Mayer, Carl, 1894-1944.; Schwalbe, Christian.; Tomek, Sabine.; Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950.; Becce, Giuseppe, 1877-1973.; Strobel, Frank.; Saarländischer Rundfunk. Sinfonie-Orchester.; UFA (Firm); Kino International Corporation.; Transit Film.; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.; Saarländischer Rundfunk.; Deutsches Filminstitut, DIF.; Association relative à la télévision européenne.
2009
PN1997 .L489 2009
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Title
The last laugh [videorecording] / Kino International ; Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; UFA ; direction, F. W. Murnau ; screenplay, Carl Mayer ; [Restored version]: a production of ZDF ; co-produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutsches Filminstitut, in collaboration with ARTE ; Producers [restored version]: Sabine Tomek, Christian Schwalbe.
Uniform Title
Letzte Mann (Motion picture : 1924)
Variant Title
Title on container, disc and menu : F. W. Murnau's The last laugh
Edition
Restored German version
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Kino International ; [Germany] : Distributed worldwide by Transit Film, 2009.
Language
German
Language Note
Opening credits and titles in English ; silent with music soundtrack added ; "Making of" documentary in German with optional English subtitles.
Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Item Number
738329065027
Call Number
PN1997 .L489 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4372
Distributor No.
K633A Kino International
Summary
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924.
"[R]estored through the cooperation of the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin; the Swiss Cinémathèque, Lausanne; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden." - Opening titles.
Released in 2009 as part of the 6 DVD set, Murnau, by Kino International.
"[R]estored through the cooperation of the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin; the Swiss Cinémathèque, Lausanne; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden." - Opening titles.
Released in 2009 as part of the 6 DVD set, Murnau, by Kino International.
Credits
Photography, Karl Freund ; [Restored version]: music, Giuseppe Becce, arranged, edited and expanded by Detlev Glanert ; performed by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Frank Strobel ; sound, Eric Heigold ; editing, Nina Golsar
Performer
Emil Jannings.
Cast
Emil Jannings.
System Details Note
DVD ; NTSC ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; 2.0 stereo or 5.1 surround stereo.
Added Author
Added Corporate Author
Series
Murnau (Kino)
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Table of Contents
Special features : Der Letzte Mann, das making of (The making of The last laugh) (n.d. ; 41 min.); original German title sequences ; image gallery.