Directed by:
Friedrich Wilhelm MurnauScreenplay:
Carl MayerCinematography:
Karl FreundCast:
Emil Jannings, Harald Madsen, Carl Schenstrøm, O.E. Hasse, Hans Unterkircher, Maly Delschaft, Emmy Wyda, Neumann-SchülerPlots(1)
The film depicts the tale of an elderly hotel doorman (played by the inimitable Emil Jannings) whose superiors have come to deem his station as transitory as the revolving doors through which he has ushered guests in and out, day upon day, decade after decade. Reduced to polishing tiles beneath a sink in the gents' lavatory and towelling the hands of Berlin's most-vulgar barons, the doorman soon uncovers the ironical underside of old-world hospitality. And then one day his fate suddenly changes... Der letzte Mann (also known as The Last Laugh, although its original title translates to "The Last Man") inaugurated a new era of mobile camera expression whose handheld aesthetic and sheer plastic fervour predated the various "New Wave" movements of the 1960s and beyond. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Emil Jannings
Switzerland
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Faust (1926)
Harald Madsen
Denmark
Best movies:
The Last Laugh (1924)
Carl Schenstrøm
Denmark
Best movies:
The Last Laugh (1924)
O.E. Hasse
German Empire
Best movies:
Die vertauschte Braut (1934)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)
Hans Unterkircher
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Last Laugh (1924)
Song Without End (1960)
Adorable Sinner (1959)
Maly Delschaft
German Empire
Best movies:
Jealousy (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Emmy Wyda
German Empire
Best movies:
The Last Laugh (1924)
Faust (1926)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Neumann-Schüler
German Empire
Best movies:
The Last Laugh (1924)
M (1931)
Destiny (1921)