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"An ironic story of a Czarist general reduced to working as an extra in Hollywood after his flight from the Revolution. Sternberg referred to his concern with extracting 'the essence of the Hollywood dream factory and to flash the essentials of a revolution without being realistic to either'. This provides evocative settings for the complex relationships between two men and a woman. The motivations of the characters played by Evelyn Brent and William Powell remain richly ambiguous. Jannings' expressionistic acting persuasively portrays the descent from grandeur to humiliation. The story had its origins in a real-life incident."@en
"A Czarist general flees Russia during the Revolution and gets a job as a Hollywood extra playing a Russian general."
""A Hollywood, un général russe en exil devenu figurant est amene à jouer son propre rôle de commandant en chef de l'armée du tsar."--[allociné.fr]. Avec Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond, Nicholas Soussanin, Michael Visaroff, Fritz Feld."
"Emil Jannings acts the part of a Czarist general displaced from his Russian homeland, finds himself in a Hollywood boarding house awaiting the degrading call to work as a movie extra. By intercutting between the "defeated" general and the action of the Russian Revolution, Von Sternberg shows how far the high and mighty can fall."@en
"Een ex-generaal uit het Tsaristische leger gaat naar Hollywood in de hoop een filmrol te krijgen. Hij krijgt een rol nl. die van generaal in een film over het laatste gevecht van het Tsaristische leger."
"A Czarist general, displaced from his Russian homeland, finds himself in a Hollywood boarding house awaiting the degrading call to work as a movie extra. By intercutting between the "defeated" general and the action of the Russian Revolution, Von Sternberg shows how far the high and mighty can fall."@en
"A Czarist general, displaced from his Russian homeland, finds himself in a Hollywood boarding house awaiting the degrading call to work as a movie extra."
"An exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra lands a role playing a version of his former czarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall."
"A Czarist general displaced from his Russian homeland, finds himself in a Hollywood boarding house awaiting the degrading call to work as a movie extra. By intercutting between the "defeated" general and the action of the Russian Revolution, Von Sternberg shows how far the high and mighty can fall."@en