has been programmed as an example of Jürgen Labenski’s activities in making old films accessible to a wider audience than historians, while maintaining the highest standards of quality. The original negative of this little known Murnau from 1925 has been preserved, but the music was thought to be lost. When it was rediscovered, Labenski took the initiative to put the original film and sound back together. The fine print of will be accompanied live in Rotterdam by Pierre Oser, who arranged the once-Wagnerian score for his trio. The film is based on the play by Molière and in filming it, Murnau respected the theatrical atmosphere and found masterful answers to translate the verbal nature of the play into a visualisation that is the basis of a good silent film. brought together several of the greatest talents of German film in the twenties were brought together such as scriptwriter Carl Meyer, cameraman Karl Freund and the stars Emil Jannings and Lil Dagover.
