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24 September 1928 (Finland) moreTagline:
EMIL JANNINGS -- World's finest dramatic actor in a brilliant successor to "The Way of all Flesh" -- and "Variety." You'll be amazed with Janning's tremendous role of the mighty general!...with men...women...a whole nation at his feet! Through flaming love...adoration...hate! To...! The most terrific climax the screen has ever known!Plot:
A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia... more | add synopsisAwards:
Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Kitsch more (9 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Emil Jannings | ... | Gen. Dolgorucki / Grand Duke Sergius Alexander |
| Evelyn Brent | ... | Natalie Dabrova |
 | William Powell | ... | Lev Andreyev |
| Jack Raymond | ... | Assistant director |
| Nicholas Soussanin | ... | The adjutant |
| Michael Visaroff | ... | Serge (the valet) |
| Fritz Feld | ... | A revolutionist |
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Based on the life of General Lodijensky, a former general in the Russian army of Czar Nicholas, who fled Russia after the 1917 Communist revolution and wound up in Hollywood, where he worked for a while as a movie extra. moreFAQ
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The Last Command is typical for von Sternberg's work: a movie seemingly decrying the decadence of the Old World ruling class while at the same time reveling in the sights of opulent sets, big costumes and, not to forget, loose women. Only an Old World director could make this kind of movie and probably only a New World audience could enjoy it. I found it a turgid, pretentious movie, taking itself way too seriously even to be enjoyable as camp.
News to me was that famed screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz got his start writing titlecards for Sternberg's movies, coming up with such immortal lines as:
- I don't know why I didn't kill you. I suppose it was because I couldn't kill anyone who loves Russia as much as you do.
- From now on you are my prisoner of war... And my prisoner of love!
And people still think he wrote Citizen Kane on his own...
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