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A key work of German silent cinema and an international smash on its release, E. A. Dupont’s Variety (Varieté) is an audacious revenge melodrama set under the canvas of the big top.When Boss Huller (the iconic Emil Jannings) meets the young émigré Berta-Marie (Lya De Putti), it kindles his desire to relaunch his career as a trapeze artist, stalled due to an injury and the pressures of domestic life. But with passion comes obsession, and with the involvement of the famed Artinelli into their act, tensions rise to a fever pitch.
Visually astonishing, with some of the most inventive camerawork of the 1920s, and a typically intense and vivid central performance from Jannings, Variety is presented here in an all-new restoration of the original German version.
Original Release
11/16/1925
US Release
11/27/1926
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Emil Jannings | Boss Huller |
Maly Delschaft | Frau Huller |
Lya De Putti | Bertha-Marie |
Warwick Ward | Artinelli |
Alice Hechy | |
Georg John | Seeman / Seemann |
Kurt Gerron | Hafenarbeiter |
Paul Rehkopf | Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt |
Charles Lincoln | Spanischer Artist |
Georg Baselt |
Directors
Writers
Ewald André Dupont, Felix Hollaender
Cast
Name | Character |
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Emil Jannings | Boss Huller |
Maly Delschaft | Frau Huller |
Lya De Putti | Bertha-Marie |
Warwick Ward | Artinelli |
Alice Hechy | |
Georg John | Seeman / Seemann |
Kurt Gerron | Hafenarbeiter |
Paul Rehkopf | Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt |
Charles Lincoln | Spanischer Artist |
Georg Baselt | |
Trude Hesterberg | Zuschauerin imm Varieté / Zuschauerin im Varieté |
Werner Krauss | (unconfirmed) |
The Flying Codonas | Acrobatic Ensemble |
Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra | Alex Hyde and His Original New York Jazz Orchestra |
Enrico Rastelli | Jongleur |
Gerhard Bienert | |
Etelka Maquita | Dancer / Tänzer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Erich Pommer | Producer |