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  Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti.
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Varieté
(Variety)
Also known as Variety in the USA; Vaudeville in the United Kingdom
(1925) Germany
B&W : 2837 metres
Directed by E.A. Dupont

Cast: Emil Jannings [Stephan ‘Boss’ Huller], Lya de Putti [Berta-Marie], Warwick Ward [Artinelli], Maly Delschaft [Huller’s wife], Georg John [seeman (a sailor)], Kurt Gerron [hafenarbeiter (a dockworker)], Charles Lincoln [Spanischer artist (an Spanish actor)], Paul Rehkopf [Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt], Trude Hesterberg [Zuschauerin imm Varieté], Enrico Rastelli [Jongleur], Etelka Maquita [a dancer], Georg Baselt, Alice Hechy, Die Drei Codonas (The Flying Codonas) [the trapeze doubles], Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra, [?] Werner Krauss?

Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA] production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Produced by Erich Pommer. Scenario by E.A. Dupont, from the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller (The Oath of Stephan Huller) by Felix Holländer. Production design by Oscar F. Werndorff (Otto Werndorff). Special effects by Ernst Kunstmann. Photographed (cinematography) by Karl Freund. / Premiered 16 November 1925 in Germany. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA as Variety by Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1926; © 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. [?] Cowie-Seventy p. ? lists Leo Birinski as the scenario writer.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung [Germany]; Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Betrayal - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Entertainers: Trapeze artists - Jealousy - Prisons - Revenge - Vengeance

Listing updated: 9 February 2019.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 186, 210b, 227, 257-258, 259; Bohn-Light pp. xxiii, 130-131, 133, 135, 152; Brownlow-Parade p. 511; Cowie-Seventy p. ?; Everson-American pp. 318-319, 321, 323, 326; Eyles-Missing p. 35; FilmYearBook-1926 front endpapers; Jewell-RKO p. 279; Kerr-Silent pp. 8, 27; Lahue-Collecting p. 37; Leish-Cinema p. 34; Limbacher-Feature p. 265; Perry-British p. 58; Sarris-Sternberg p. 28; Shipman-Cinema pp. 89, 97, 101; Sinyard-Silent pp. 159, 161; Vermilye-Twenties p. 186 : Website-IMDb.

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