The Criterion Collection

The Last Command

Edition no. 530

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This release can only be found in the following box set: 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg

Release Date: Tuesday, 08 October 2019
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $99.95 (Box set exclusive)

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Paramount Home Entertainment

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra who lands a role playing a version of his former tsarist self, bringing about his emotional downfall. Josef von Sternberg’s The Last Command is a brilliantly realized silent melodrama and a witty send-up of the Hollywood machine, featuring virtuoso cinematography, grandly designed sets and effects, and rousing Russian Revolution sequences. Towering above it all is the passionate, heartbreaking Jannings, whose portrayal of a man losing his grip on reality is one for the history books.

Year: 1928
Time: 88 min.