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  1. The Last Laugh ( German: Der letzte Mann, transl. The Last Man) is a 1924 German silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. The film stars Emil Jannings and Maly Delschaft .

  2. Mar 5, 2000 · F.W. Murnau's "The Last Laugh" (1924) tells this story in one of the most famous of silent films, and one of the most truly silent, because it does not even use printed intertitles.

  3. F. W. Murnau. Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh). 1924 | MoMA. F. W. Murnau Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) 1924. Not on view. Murnau’s silent film The Last Laugh tells the tragic story of a self-confident hotel porter, brilliantly portrayed by Emil Jannings, who is demoted to lavatory attendant.

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  5. Apr 19, 1994 · By Alyssa Katz. Apr 19, 1994. R ivaled only by Fritz Lang and G. W. Pabst as Germany’s greatest director of the silent age, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was a tireless formal innovator exhilaratingly difficult to pin down.

  6. Jan 14, 2022 · This 1924 German film, directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Emil Jannings, told the story of a hotel doorman, very proud of his uniform, who is demoted to hotel janitor — and suffers a crisis as...

  7. May 13, 2017 · Cinematography by Karl Freund. The plot of The Last Laugh can be encapsulated in a simple sentence: an anonymous hotel doorman is demoted. Despite its simple premise, however, this silent movie is an astonishingly profound depiction of human misery.

  8. Jul 30, 2021 · The Last Laugh (German: Der letzte Mann, transl. The Last Man) is a 1924 German silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. The film stars Emil Jannings and Maly Delschaft.

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