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Tartuffe
Directed by
F. W. Murnau
Not Rated
1927
62m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.1
88%
76%
7.2
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A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
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Cast of Tartuffe
Emil Jannings
Tartüff
Werner Krauss
Herr Orgon
Lil Dagover
Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife
Hermann Picha
Der Greis
Rosa Valetti
Seine Haushälterin / Housekeeper
André Mattoni
Sein Enkel / Grandson
Lucie Höflich
Dorine
Camilla Horn
(uncredited)
F. W. Murnau
Director
Carl Mayer
Writer
Erich Pommer
Producer
Robert Herlth
Art Direction / Costume Design
Walter Röhrig
Art Direction / Costume Design
Karl Freund
Director Of Photography
Waldemar Jabs
Makeup Artist
Giuseppe Becce
Original Music Composer
Kurt Graunke
Conductor
Frank Strobel
Conductor
Molière
Theatre Play
Tartuffe Ratings & Reviews
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Martin Dickstein
Tartuffe, thanks mainly to Emil Jannings' splendid performance, is a film to merit your considerate attention.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Murnau is, of course, an incredible visual stylist, and the golden-tinted hues of Karl Freund's cinematography are often breathtaking. But Tartuffe is ultimately one of Murnau's minor works.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
One of silent cinema's most rigorous formalist exercises
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The mise en scene is beautifully modulated and the performances -- by Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, and Werner Krauss, among others -- are first-rate.
New York Times
Whatever else may be said about it, the picture is heavy and primitive.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Matt Bailey
While the film is arguably minor Murnau, it remains highly agreeable and full of the director's characteristic visual inventiveness, albeit on a smaller scale.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
One of the first post-modern films (in which characters watch and are aware of films).
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