DER LETZTE MANN (THE LAST LAUGH) Clip from the Masters of Cinema Release

In Der Letzte Mann, one of the undisputed masterpieces of the silent era, Emil Jannings gives an overwhelming performance as a hotel porter with dreams of a higher station in life, and was a stylistic breakthrough for both Murnau and cinema in general. DER LETZTE MANN (THE LAST LAUGH) features in the Deluxe Boxed set EARLY MURNAU: FIVE FILMS, 1921-1925, five masterpieces from one of the finest directors of the silent era, for the first time in the world on Blu-ray. One of the most influential and revered figures in all of cinema, Friedrich Wilheim Murnau came to prominence in the first half of the 1920s with a diverse string of productions ranging from buoyant satire to swirling psychological drama. Five key works are presented here: Schloß Vogelöd, Phantom, Die Finanzen des Großherzogs (The Grand Duke’s Finances), Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) and Tartuffe. In the sinister mystery Schloß Vogelöd, terrible secrets from the past threaten a group of aristocrats’ gathering at a country manor. In the deliri