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(YT) Jannings is so pro that helps Dupont to achieve this deliberately loose and grotesque realism (every german realism are rooted in expressionism)...

Unfolding in a kaleidoscopic riot of dizzying expressionist imagery, this backstage carnival melodrama is one of the most visually astounding achievements of the silent era. The great Emil Jannings stars as a once renowned, now aging trapeze artist driven to the brink of madness when his young partner (Lya De Putti) captures the attention of a rival acrobat (Warwick Ward)—a simple love triangle that is lent overwhelming psychological intensity by Karl Freund’s deliriously stylized camerawork.