Screenplay: Josef von Sternberg

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Evelyn Brent · William Powell · Jack Raymond

Synopsis A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early twentieth century cinema. Dietrich is Princess Sophia from Germany, induced...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Akemi Negishi · Tadashi Suganuma · Kisaburo Sawamura · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Victor McLaglen · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Warner Oland

Synopsis Director Josef von Sternberg’s answer to MGM’s MATA HARI with Greta Garbo stars Marlene Dietrich as X27, a seductive agent sent by the Austrian secret service to spy on the Russians. In the process, she goes up against and falls...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George K. Arthur · Georgia Hale · Bruce Guerin · Otto Matieson

Synopsis Often described as "the first American independent film", von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about "humans who crawl near the floor." It's hard now to appreciate the bomb-shell that Sternberg's first feature must have...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Synopsis Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in the mind of director Josef von Sternberg. Look for Victor...

Direction Phil Rosen · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Conrad Nagel · Renée Adorée · Paulette Duval · Frank Currier

Synopsis A young bourgeois Dominique Prad spurns his family's lucrative silk business for the bohemian life of an artist. Fleeing his estate to join a band of gypsies, the mentally unstable painter falls in love with a pretty gypsy maiden, Silda.

Direction Mauritz Stiller · Ludwig Berger · Lothar Mendes · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Fay Wray · Olga Baclanova · Ernest W. Johnson

Synopsis The story is set in the seamy Soho section of London, where burglar Basher Bill shares bed and board with his sluttish girlfriend Annie. As wicked as they come, Bill softens when he meets virtuous Salvation Army lass Elizabeth.

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Edna Purviance · Eve Southern · Raymond Bloomer · Gayne Whitman

Synopsis Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together...