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E.A. Dupont, Ufa, 1925. Jannings is an acrobat who takes a younger partner (Lya de Putti) and then cannot live with the triangle. The confession starts in prison. Karl Freund lets the camera swing with the trapeze and through the crowd. The plot is pulp. The shooting is why Hollywood hired these people.
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The trapeze shots put the camera where the acrobat's eyes are, and the crowd becomes a smear of faces looking up. The plot is a triangle. Nobody remembers the plot.
Jealousy as a fall. Jannings takes a younger partner and cannot live with the triangle, and Freund swings the camera from the trapeze. The confession starts in prison. Watch the catcher's hands during the act. That is where the wanting lives.
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