Variety
1925·Drama·1h 44m
7.1
★
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Directed by E.A. Dupont
prison
son
silent film
trapeze artist
Trailer
IMDB
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Cast
Emil Jannings
Boss Huller
Maly Delschaft
Frau Huller
Lya De Putti
Bertha-Marie
Warwick Ward
Artinelli
Alice Hechy
Georg John
Seemann
Kurt Gerron
Hafenarbeiter
Paul Rehkopf
Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt
Trude Hesterberg
Zuschauerin im Varieté
Werner Krauss
Etelka Maquita
Tänzer
Crew
E.A. Dupont
Director
E.A. Dupont
Screenplay
Erich Pommer
Producer
Alfred Junge
Art Direction
Popular Reviews
7 reviews
Erik Olsson
8.0★ · 01/04/26
Freund and Hoffman are just going absolutely bananas with cinematography here, holy shit. The story is sort of a cross with The Blue Angel and some of Tod Browning's sideshow pictures, particularly The Unknown, and perhaps throw in a bit of Nightmare Alley. Just really damn good essential Weimar cinema, and desperately makes me wish that The 4 Devils still existed...
Freund and Hoffman are just going absolutely bananas with cinematography here, holy shit. The story is sort of a cross with The Blue Angel and some of Tod Browning's sideshow pictures, particularly The Unknown, and perhaps throw in a bit of Nightmare Alley. Just really damn good essential Weimar cinema, and desperately makes me wish that The 4 Devils still existed...
cam
10.0★ · 11/16/25
my cool awesome talented amazing bf worked on a re-score of this movie!! Therefore it gets 5 stars :3
my cool awesome talented amazing bf worked on a re-score of this movie!! Therefore it gets 5 stars :3
Jude
8.0★ · 10/09/25
Visceral and uncomfortable, but so good. Might take me a while to get to rewatching this one, if I ever do, but so so good.
Visceral and uncomfortable, but so good. Might take me a while to get to rewatching this one, if I ever do, but so so good.
PoyPoy
Need her manga workout T shirt
Also her situationship needs to take a hint
Also her situationship needs to take a hint
Need her manga workout T shirt
Also her situationship needs to take a hint
Also her situationship needs to take a hint
Joanna
8.0★ · 04/04/26