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The Last Command
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Sternberg, 1928: Emil Jannings as a White Russian general who ends up an extra in a Hollywood war picture directed by the revolutionary who once broke him. Evelyn Brent is the woman. Paramount. Jannings won the first Best Actor Oscar. The film is about humiliation as a craft: a man who commanded an army now taking orders about how to fall. Sternberg's lighting turns a studio backlot into a second exile. Released the year sound arrived; Jannings's face did not need it.
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- EssayMovies Silently Review ★★ (opens in a new tab)
- EssayThe Last Command (opens in a new tab)
- EssayThe Last Command (1928) | The Criterion Collection — The Criterion Collection (opens in a new tab)
- EssayThe Last Command: Illusions and Delusions | Current | The Criterion Collection — The Criterion Collection (opens in a new tab)
