- Tartuffe (film)
Infobox Film
name = Herr Tartüff
caption = Film poster
director = F. W. Murnau
producer =Erich Pommer
writer =Carl Mayer
starring =Hermann Picha Rose Valetti Werner Krauss Lil Dagover Lucie Hoeflich Emil Jannings
cinematography =Karl W. Freund
distributor =
released =
runtime = 4 reels
country =Weimar Germany
language =Silent film
German intertitles
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amg_id = 1:112715
imdb_id = 0017448"Tartuffe" ("Herr Tartüff") is a German
silent film produced byErich Pommer for UFA and released in 1926. It was directed byF. W. Murnau , photographed byKarl Freund and written byCarl Mayer fromMolière 's original play.The film starred
Emil Jannings as Tartuffe,Lil Dagover as Elmire andWerner Krauss as Orgon.Although retaining the basic plot, Murnau and Mayer pared down Molière's play, eliminating most of the secondary characters and concentrating on the triangle of Orgon, Elmire and Tartuffe. They also introduced a
framing device , whereby the story of Tartuffe becomes a film-within-a-film, shown by a young actor as a device to warn his grandfather about his unctuous but evil housekeeper.External links
*imdb title|id=0017448|title=Herr Tartüff
*amg title|id=1:112715|title=Herr Tartüff
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