Tartuffe
About Tartuffe
A housekeeper, played by Rosa Valetti, gets a rich old man to cut his grandson out of the will and then starts to poison him. The grandson, André Mattoni, cannot get in to warn him, so he shows the old man a film of Molière's Tartuffe. In that film Emil Jannings is Tartuffe, Werner Krauss is Orgon, and Lil Dagover is Elmire, and Elmire exposes the hypocrite. When the screening ends, the grandson takes off his disguise. The housekeeper gives herself away, and the old man throws her out.
Cast & crew
More about Tartuffe
F. W. Murnau directed. Carl Mayer adapted Molière. Erich Pommer produced the film for UFA. Karl Freund photographed it at Tempelhof. Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig designed the sets and costumes. Giuseppe Becce wrote the music. The German opening was 25 January 1926. The United States release was 24 July 1927. Hermann Picha plays the grandfather.
Themes
Music
Giuseppe Becce wrote the score.
Notes
- The German title is Herr Tartüff.
- The file year is 1925, the year of production. UFA opened the film in Germany on 25 January 1926.
- Trade listings also give 74 minutes, and one length is 1,939 meters.
- Lucie Höflich plays Dorine. Mayer and Murnau cut most of Molière's secondary characters and kept the triangle of Orgon, Elmire, and Tartuffe.
- Eureka Entertainment issued it in 2016 on Blu-ray in the set Early Murnau.
Scenes
- The grandson screens Tartuffe because he cannot get past the housekeeper.
- He removes the disguise after the inner film, and the old man orders her out.
Influenced by
- Molière's Tartuffe
Also available
- Eureka Entertainment Blu-ray, Early Murnau (2016)
