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Der letzte Mann The last laugh

Chronicles the fickle advantages of status as an aging hotel doorman is demoted to lavatory attendant.

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  • "Letzte Mann"
  • "Last laugh"

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  • "Le portier d'un palace berlinois, fier de sa fonction et de son uniforme, est jugé trop vieux et se retrouve relégué au rang de gardien des lavabos au sous-sol. Pour ses amis, sa famille, ses voisins, il n'est plus qu'une épave, en d'autres mots, "le dernier des hommes". Humilié, il songe au suicide. Grâce à un héritage providentiel, il devient un client millionnaire et goguenard du palace."
  • "One of the major works of German silent cinema, Murnau's class drama depicts the fall of the respected, aging, hotel doorman of a posh 1920s Berlin hotel, who is cruelly stripped of his position and reduced to a bathroom attendant, before his fortunes turn and he becomes a millionaire. The film was groundbreaking for its expressive, mobile camera work, which imparts information visually, without subtitles. The camera on a trolley glides, rises, zooms, or weaves where the story takes it. The camera takes part in the action and becomes a character in the drama."
  • "Chronicles the fickle advantages of status as an aging hotel doorman is demoted to lavatory attendant."@en
  • "The chief doorman of a large hotel, deemed to be too old for the job, is demoted to lavatory attendant. The ironic parody of the happy ending by its very fatuousness throws into relief the horror of relentless and inhuman forces at work in the world of the bourgeois, forces which are incomprehensible to the doorman. This petty tragedy uses the slow rhythms of the Kammerspiel film, with its nameless archetypes, insistent camera movement and atmosphere in a simple plot with a minimum of intertitles, so that undivided attention can be focused on emotion floating palably around the characters. Objects are used as symbols or carriers of emotional meaning. The tracking camera becomes a participant, frequently expressing a subjective point-of-view. There are traces of Expressionism in the lighting and the dream sequence. Janning's weighty immobility and exaggeration of expression and gesture is heavy with pathos."
  • "A pompous, aging doorman, rejected by family and friends when he is fired from his job, experiences a sudden change in fortune."
  • "The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate."

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  • "Silent films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Drama"
  • "Cinéma muet (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "Der Letzte Mann The last laugh"
  • "Der Letzte Mann The Last laugh"
  • "Letzte Mann (Film)"
  • "Der letze mann The last laugh"
  • "Der letzte Mann : [DVD] The last laugh"
  • "Der letzte Mann : The last laugh [videorecording]"
  • "Der letzte Mann The last laugh"@en
  • "Der letzte Mann The last laugh"
  • "Der letzte Mann, aka, the last laugh"

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