Variety (1925 film)
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| Directed by | Ewald Andre Dupont |
| Produced by | Erich Pommer |
| Written by |
Original Story: Felix Hollaender Screenwriter: Ewald Andre Dupont Leo Birinski |
| Starring |
Emil Jannings Lya de Putti Maly Delschaft Warwick Ward |
| Cinematography |
Karl W. Freund Carl Hoffmann |
| Distributed by |
UFA (Germany) Paramount Pictures (US) |
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Release date
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16 November 1925 (Germany) 27 June 1926 (US) |
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Running time
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112 minutes |
| Language |
Silent film German intertitles |
Variety (German: Varieté [ˌvaʀi̯eˈte], also known by the alternative titles Jealousy or Vaudeville) is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller (1923) by Felix Hollaender. Jannings portrays "Boss Huller," an ex-trapeze artist who runs a seedy carnival with his wife (Maly Delschaft) and child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger (Lya De Putti) as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new trapeze number. The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre. The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats.
The German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck cites being unexpectedly exposed to the film as a child of four as the start of his interest in the medium.
This film is believed to be the first documentation of unicycle hockey – it contains a short sequence showing two people playing the game.
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