The Last Command

The Last Command

1928 · 88 min · EN · 7.2 (67 votes)
Dir. Josef von Sternberg · Starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond, Nicholas Soussanin, Michael Visaroff
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A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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A poignant, silent epic of a fallen aristocrat navigating the strange new world of Hollywood. It's a wistful, tragic look at lost status and the echoes of revolution, captured in stark, beautiful black and white.

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