Tartüff

Tartüff

Deutschland 1925, Spielfilm

Synopsis

Tartuffe

An old man is nursed by his house-keeper out of sheer charity. At least that his what he thinks. Actually, the greedy woman is straight after the ill man′s fortune. In addition, she is not willing to share the money with anyone. Thus, she successfully defames the old man′s nephew who as a result gets disinherited. But the nephew does not give up so easily. Instead, he uses his acting talent to bring out the true face of his uncle′s house-keeper. Disguised beyond recognition, he shows a movie in his travelling cinema that is a simile to the greedy house-keeper′s scheme. The film tells the story of wily Tartüff who wants to fool a friend out of his money but who is exposed by a trick of his victim′s wife. When the nephew takes of his mask after the film′s screening, the house-keeper gives herself away. Now even the old uncle realises that she was only interested in his fortune and chases the sneaky woman out.

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Credits

Director:F. W. Murnau
Screenplay:Carl Mayer
Director of photography:Karl Freund
Music:Giuseppe Becce
  
Cast: 
Emil JanningsHerr Tartüff
Werner KraußOrgon
Lil DagoverElmire
Lucie HöflichDorine
André MattoniNeffe
Hermann PichaGreiser Onkel - in der Rahmenhandlung
Rosa ValettiHaushälterin
  
Production company:Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)
Producer:Erich Pommer

All Credits

Director:F. W. Murnau
Assistant director:Erich Holder
Screenplay:Carl Mayer
based on:Molière (Komödie "Le Tartuffe ou l'imposteur")
Director of photography:Karl Freund
Assistant camera:Robert Baberske
Production design:Robert Herlth, Walter Röhrig
Costume design:Robert Herlth
Make-up artist:Waldemar Jabs
Music:Giuseppe Becce
Arrangement:Rolf Unkel (Instrumentierung 1972 nach G. Becce)
Conductor:Ignatz Waghalter (Bei der deutschen Erstaufführung)
  
Cast: 
Emil JanningsHerr Tartüff
Werner KraußOrgon
Lil DagoverElmire
Lucie HöflichDorine
André MattoniNeffe
Hermann PichaGreiser Onkel - in der Rahmenhandlung
Rosa ValettiHaushälterin
  
Production company:Universum-Film AG (UFA) (Berlin)
Producer:Erich Pommer
Shoot:03.1925-04.1925: Ufa-Atelier, Tempelhof
Original distributor:UFA-Filmverleih GmbH (Berlin)
Length:5 Akte, 1876 m
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, stumm
Rating:Zensur (DE): 13.08.1925, B.11003, Jugendverbot
Screening:Uraufführung (AT): 20.11.1925, Wien;
Erstaufführung (DE): 25.01.1926, Berlin, Gloria-Palast;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 27.02.1973, ZDF

Titles

Originaltitel (DE) Tartüff
Verleihtitel (AT) Der Scheinheilige
Zensurtitel Herr Tartüff

Versions

Original

Length:5 Akte, 1876 m
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, stumm
Rating:Zensur (DE): 13.08.1925, B.11003, Jugendverbot
Screening:Uraufführung (AT): 20.11.1925, Wien;
Erstaufführung (DE): 25.01.1926, Berlin, Gloria-Palast;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 27.02.1973, ZDF