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Variety (Varieté)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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A rediscovered masterpiece of the German silent cinema, Ewald André Dupont's Varieté is a visuaIly dazzling taIe of love and betrayal, foreshadowing such great works as F.W. Murnau's Sunrise and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel. Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) stars as a carnivaI spieler who becomes entranced by a waifish dancer (Lya de Putti), and graduaIIy betrays his wife, his honor, and his self-respect in an effort to be the soIe possessor of her love. The dynamic camerawork by KarI Freund infIuenced an entire generation of filmmakers, and can at Iast be fuIIy appreciated in this exquisite restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
Special Features: Mastered from the 2015 restoration by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and FiImarchiv Austria | New musicaI score performed by the BerkIee SiIent Film Orchestra | 2015 musical score performed by The Tiger LiIIies | VisuaI essay by Bret Wood | "Varieté: The Making of," a 7-minute documentary on the BerkIee Silent FiIm Orchestra | Othello (1922, Germany 79 min.), Dimitri Buchowetzki's adaptation of Shakespeare's drama of love and jealousy, also starring EmiI Jannings and Lya de Putti |
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