Jealousy (1925) ( Varieté )

Jealousy (1925) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Varieté
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Silent ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
95 min + 82 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1925 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ewald André Dupont

Written By:
Felix Hollaender
Ewald André Dupont

Actors:
Emil Jannings ..... Boss Huller
Maly Delschaft ..... Frau Huller
Lya De Putti ..... Bertha-Marie
Warwick Ward ..... Artinelli
Alice Hechy ..... Seeman
Georg John ..... Hafenarbeiter
Kurt Gerron ..... Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt
Paul Rehkopf ..... Spanischer Artist
Charles Lincoln ..... Zuschauerin imm Varieté
Georg Baselt ..... (unconfirmed)
Trude Hesterberg ..... Acrobatic Ensemble
Werner Krauss ..... Alex Hyde and His Original New York Jazz Orchestra
The Flying Codonas ..... Jongleur
Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra
Enrico Rastelli

Synopsis:

Varieté is Germany's most successful movie of 1925. It is a high dram of fatal jealousy starring Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti. This film was the ticket to Hollywood for director E. A. Dupont. Cinematographer Karl Freund's innovating 'unchained camera technique' established the international reputation of this cinematic jewel. The elaborately restored version, with music performed by The Tiger Lillies revives the unique atmosphere of this Weimar cinema classic.

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.

This silent German film tells a tale of jealousy, obsession and murder, set against the backdrop of the circus. Carnival owner "Boss" Huller (Emil Jannings) used to be a talented acrobat. Now he owns a lowbrow sideshow act with his wife. When he meets a beautiful young woman (Lya De Putti), he runs off with her, abandoning his family. But a strapping trapeze artist (Warwick Ward) soon lures away Huller's new lover. Huller then realizes he has swiftly moved from cheater to cuckold.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 10 June, 2015.

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