Eternal Love 1929  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth, Bodil Rosing, Mona Rico, Evelyn Selbie
Director Lubitsch's and John Barrymore's final silent film before moving into talkies, this tale, based on a novel by Jakob Christopher Beer, is set in the Swiss Alps (filmed in the Canadian Rockies). A couple, each of whom is in a loveless marriage, carries on a secret romance; but when the woman's husband is murdered, they are on the run. A real tearjerker, but well told.
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 Faust 1926  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Werner Fuetterer, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Hanna Ralph, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barcley, Hans Brausewetter, Lothar Muthel, Hertha von Walther, Emmy Wyda, Hans Rameau
This distinguished masterpiece in filmmaking tells the story of a deal struck between Mephisto (Emil Jannings) and Faust (Gosta Ekman). Faust is an alchemist who fails to stop death during a plague and burns his books. Satan then sends Mephisto to tempt Faust into returning to his youth in exchange for his soul. Faust makes the deal and regains his youth. Now, Faust courts Gretchen (Camilla Horn), dishonors her, and then casts her aside. Will Faust find redemption?
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Tartuffe 1925 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Rosa Valetti, Hermann Picha, Andre Mattoni, Lucie Hoflich, Camilla Horn
Based on Moliere's satirical play, this is the tale of Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), a religious hypocrite who uses his skills to rip off believers. He is now on the verge of talking wealthy Orgon (Werner Krauss) into handing over Orgon's daughter, whom Tartuffe loves, AND Orgon's land and money in exchange for divine absolution. But he doesn't quite get away with it.
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Tempest 1928 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, Viktor Tourjansky
Cast: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast, George Fawcett, Ullrich Haupt, Michael Visaroff, Wilhelm von Brincken, Michael Mark, Gregory Gaye, John Bleifer, Albert Conti
Set during the Russian Revolution, this is the story of a peasant, Ivan Markov (John Barrymore), who rises to the rank of Lieutenant in the final days of Czarist Russia. He is scorned by the "higher-class" officers and by Princess Tamara (Camilla Horn), a general's daughter. He is imprisoned and stripped of his rank after a trumped-up charge, and released during the Revolution. Ivan quickly rises in the ranks, and now the tables are turned as the Princess and her family's fate depends on Ivan's mercy.
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| 1. Eternal Love (1929)
2. Faust (1926)
3. Tartuffe (1925)
4. Tempest (1928)
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