The last laugh
By: Kino International ; Transit Film GmbH ; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; UFA ; direction, F. W. Murnau ; screenplay, Carl Mayer ; [Restored version]: a production of ZDF ; co-produced by Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutsches Filminstitut, in collaboration with ARTE ; Producers [restored version]: Sabine Tomek, Christian Schwalbe
Contributors: Jannings, Emil, 1884-1950; Becce, Giuseppe, 1877-1973; Strobel, Frank; Saarländischer Rundfunk. Sinfonie-Orchester; UFA (Firm); Kino International Corporation; Transit Film; Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung; Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; Saarländischer Rundfunk; Deutsches Filminstitut, DIF; Association relative à la télévision européenne
Edition: Restored German version.
Series: Murnau (Kino)
Publisher: Kino International; Distributed worldwide by Transit Film
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; [Germany]
Language: und
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Drama; Millionaires; Age discrimination in employment; Hotel doorkeepers
Other titles: F. W. Murnau's The last laugh; Letzte Mann (Motion picture)
Description: The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1924.

"[R]estored through the cooperation of the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, Berlin; the Swiss Cinémathèque, Lausanne; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden." - Opening titles.

Released in 2009 as part of the 6 DVD set, Murnau, by Kino International.

Photography, Karl Freund ;  [Restored version]: music, Giuseppe Becce, arranged, edited and expanded by Detlev Glanert ; performed by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Frank Strobel ; sound, Eric Heigold ; editing, Nina Golsar

Emil Jannings.

DVD ; NTSC ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio ; 2.0 stereo or 5.1 surround stereo.

Opening credits and titles in English ; silent with music soundtrack added ; "Making of" documentary in German with optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Special features : Der Letzte Mann, das making of (The making of The last laugh) (n.d. ; 41 min.); original German title sequences ; image gallery.