Directed by:
Josef von SternbergScreenplay:
Lajos BiróCinematography:
Bert GlennonCast:
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond, Fritz Feld, Harry Semels, Harry Cording, Guy Oliver, Sam Savitsky, Shep Houghton, Michael VisaroffPlots(1)
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent melodrama and a witty send-up of the Hollywood machine, featuring virtuoso cinematography, grandly designed sets and effects, and rousing Russian Revolution sequences. Towering above all is the passionate, heartbreaking Jannings, whose portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality is one for the history books. (Criterion)
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