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Tartuffe is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau released in USA on 24 july 1927 with Werner Krauss

Tartuffe (1926)

Herr Tartüff

Tartuffe
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Released in USA 24 july 1927
Length 1h14
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating70% 3.5475653.5475653.5475653.5475653.547565

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.

Based on the play Tartuffe, the film retains the basic plot, but 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.

Synopsis

Un vieux conseiller est dupe de l'hypocrisie de sa gouvernante : pour lui ouvrir les yeux, son petit-fils va lui projeter une comédie filmée intitulée « Tartuffe ». La séance terminée, l'impudente sera démasquée et chassée.

Actors

Werner Krauss

(Herr Orgon)Lil Dagover

(Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife)Lucie Höflich

(Dorine)Emil Jannings

(Tartüff)Hermann Picha

(Der Greis)Camilla Horn

((uncredited))
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