Jealousy
(1925)
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Jealousy
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Boss Huller
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Maly Delschaft | ... |
The wife of Boss
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| Lya De Putti | ... |
Bertha
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Warwick Ward | ... |
Artinelli
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Alice Hechy |
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Georg John | ... |
Sailor
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Kurt Gerron | ... |
Harbourworker
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Paul Rehkopf | ... |
Spectator at the Fair
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Charles Lincoln | ... |
Actor
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Georg Baselt |
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Trude Hesterberg |
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Werner Krauss |
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Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra | ... |
Himself
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Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness. Written by Christian Taube <taube@isa.de>
Variete is a well-directed and well-acted morality play. Chock full of cynical humor and ironic twists, it keeps your attention throughout in expert fashion until the last 20 minutes of the movie. Then things unravel too quickly and too obviously to hit home with the intended impact of the final irony. Still, I give it 7 out of 10.