Released Date:
1928-04-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(2090 Reviews)
Director:
Josef von SternbergLajos Birè (story)
John F. Goodrich
Herman J. Mankiewicz (titles)
Josef von Sternberg (story)
A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.
Released Date:
1938-01-14
Languages:
German
Countries:
Germany
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (119 Reviews)
Genres:
ComedyHeinrich von Kleist (play)
Thea von Harbou (screenplay)
The blank verse does not work all that well in subtitles, but the film works even for those who don't understand German. The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
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