Variety (1925 film)

Variety (German: Varieté [ˌvaʀi̯eˈte], also known by the alternative titles Jealousy or Vaudeville) is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller (1923) by Felix Hollaender. Jannings portrays "Boss Huller," an ex-trapeze artist who runs a seedy carnival with his wife (Maly Delschaft) and child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger (Lya De Putti) as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new trapeze number. The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre. The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats.

Contents

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• Cast
• Influence
• References

Cast

Emil Jannings as Boss Huller

Maly Delschaft as wife of Boss

Lya De Putti as Bertha

Warwick Ward as Artinelli

Georg John

Influence

The German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck cites being unexpectedly exposed to the film as a child of four as the start of his interest in the medium.

This film is believed to be the first documentation of unicycle hockey – it contains a short sequence showing two people playing the game.