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The Last Command is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró. The film stars Emil Jannings , who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 1929 ceremony for his performances in this film and The Way of All Flesh , [1] the only year multiple roles were ...
The Last Command: Directed by Josef von Sternberg. With Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond. A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Josef von Sternberg
- 1928-01-21
The Last Command. Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former tsarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent ...
- Grand Duke Sergius Alexander
Aug 13, 2021 · The Last Command. Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former tsarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent ...
- 89 min
- 2.4K
- Shadows of the Dark
This is a fully high definition copy of Josef von Sternberg's drama, starring Emil Jannings and Evelyn Brent. I do not own the rights to the film, nor am I p...
- 88 min
- 6.9K
- André Bourbeau
The latter film's lasting fame has overshadowed Sternberg's earlier achievements, but his Hollywood films of the silent era--most notably The Last Command, Underworld (1927), and The Docks of New York (1928) - are much too entertaining to be forgotten. The Last Command is distinguished on many counts.
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Aug 24, 2010 · Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command (1928) was first and foremost a star vehicle for Emil Jannings, the internationally known, Swiss-born actor, who had left Germany in October 1926 to work for Paramount Pictures. During his two and a half years in Hollywood, Jannings made six films, five of which are considered lost except for small fragments and a trailer. The only one that fully ...
