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"A screen adaption of Molière's black comedy about the religious hypocrite who insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family."@en
"A screen adaption of Molière's black comedy about the religious hypocrite who insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family."
"El cuento clásico de un falso religioso insinuándose en una familia rica de París."
"The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F.W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The last laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe, he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape. To endow the story with contemporary relevance, Murnau frames Moliére's tale with a modern-day plot concerning a housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate. Kino Lorber presents the 1925 American release version with its original titles and tinting, from a 35mm nitrate print preserved by the Library of Congress and restored in 2002 by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin/Koblenz and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung of Wiesbaden."@en
"A young man uses a film of Molière's play about a religious hypocrite who insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family to expose his grandfather's greedy housemaid."@en
"Adaptation brillante de la pièce de Molière par Carl Meyer, scénariste et F.W. Murneau, en tant que réalisateur. La bonne voudrait s'emparer de la fortune de Monsieur et de ce fait elle éloigne toute visite de son maître. Grâce au neveu rusé du vieil homme, qui se présente déguisé en tant qu'artiste, la bonne sera démasquée."
"A housekeeper's stealthy efforts to poison her elderly master and take control of his estate by convincing the master that his grandson is unworthy are uncovered. In the film's second plot a religious guest insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family as the faithful wife tries to convince her husband that the man is a lecherous hypocrite."@en
"Un vieillard riche vit sous la coupe d'une gouvernante hypocrite qui convoite son héritage. Le petit-fils du vieillard démasque la gouvernante en lui projetant le film "Tartuffe" tiré de la pièce de Molière. À la fin de la projection, le vieillard comprend qu'il se trouve dans la même situation qu'Orgon en face de Tartuffe et chasse l'intrigante. De la pièce, Murnau n'a conservé que 4 personnages: Orgon et Elmire, d'une part représentant la bourgeoisie, Tartuffe et Dorine d'autre part représentant le peuple."
"Murnau revisits Molière's fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife tries to convince her husband that their morally superior houseguest is, in fact, a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape."@en
"Drama based on the play by Moliere about greed. A woman, who is housekeeping for an old man in order to claim the inheritance schemes to have his nephew disinherited. The nephew exposes her plans by using a travelling cinema to tell a parallel story - a film within a film."
"Un vieux et riche bourgeois vit seul avec sa logeuse, une mégère assoiffée d'héritage qui lui fait impudemment la cour. Quand le petit fils du vieillard s'en rend compte, il se déguise en producteur de spectacle, et convie son grand père et sa logeuse à la projection d'un film dans son cinéma ambulant. Il espère que l'histoire de l'hypocrite Tartuffe, qui tente d'arracher ses biens et sa femme à son "ami", ouvrira les yeux du vieil homme..."
"A devious housekeeper convinces her master to cut his worthy grandson out of his will and to leave the riches to her instead. The grandson, disguised as the projectionist of a travelling cinema show, flatters his way into the home to project a film of Tartuffe in an attempt to open his grandfather's eyes. (1926)."@en
"A religious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family."@en
"A religious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family."