Variety (Varieté)

This movie was restored in 2014/2015

by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden, Germany,

in cooperation with Filmarchiv Austria in Vienna.

The source material was an abridged nitrate copy for the US market,

provided by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

The German intertitles and missing scenes

stem from a nitrate copy of Filmarchiv Austria.

Some shots were added from a duplicate copy of the Filmmuseum Munich

and a duplicate negative of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Missing title cards were reconstructed on the basis of the censorship card

and the typography of the Viennese copy's intertitles.

They are marked by the abbreviation FWMS.

The digital restoration in 2K definition was realized by Filmarchiv Austria.

VARIETY

The tragedy of an acrobat

based on motives of Felix Hollaender's novel "Der Eid des Stephan Huller"

Adapted for the screen and directed by E. A. Dupont

Cinematography: Karl Freund Production Design: O. F. Werndorff

Starring: Boss - Emil Jannings

His wife - Mary Delschaft

The strange girl - Lya de Putti

Artinelli - Warwick Ward

The prison director, an inmate, a soldier.

"Call up number 28."

"Your wife has appealed for clemency at the minister of justice

on which I have to take a stand on."

"During the whole trial and in the ten years of your sentence,

you have never uttered a single word about what has happened -"

"Don't you want to lighten your conscience now?"

May God not let my prayers for your release be in vain.

Your son and I haven't given up on you. We wait.

Your wife and your child.

"It began in Hamburg - - -"

"- - - the Parisian beauty pageant is about to start."

"- - - Youth!"

"- - - Beauty!!"

"- - - Grace!!!"

"Due to the large crowd the entry is only 20 Pennys, including: everything - - -"

"The ladies are already dressing up for the presentation."

"Don't be shy, gentlemen, - you see the most up front - - -"

That night, the freight ship "Berta Marie" moored in Hamburg.

"Very well, I'll bring her to Boss - - -"

"I just arrived from Frisco on the 'Berta-Marie'.

We've picked up a woman and her daughter on the way..."

"Around Cape Verde, the woman has died of a fever.

What are we supposed to do with the girl?"

"I'm telling you, the 'Berta-Marie' is cursed. I already got myself paid off."

"And now you want me to hire the girl?"

"- - - well, she can dance - - -"

"What does she want here? - We have enough of her kind - - -"

"She stays!"

"She stays!"

"She has got such a curious name,

we just named her 'Berta Marie' after the ship."

"Isn't this a boring life?

Do you remember the old days, when we would do our trapeze act?"

"Do you want to break your legs again and spend a year in the hospital again?"

"However - - - I'm as fit as a fiddle. We should try it again - - -"

"- - - we could get out of here - - - live a decent life."

"But without me - - - without me - - -"

The "new one".

After the show.

"Don't be mad..."

"Are you really not mad at me...?"

The strange charme...

"The show is over!!"

"Didn't you hear me... I have quit... Definitely quit..."