{{short description|1925 film}} {{For|the later film|Variety (1935 German film)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Variety | image = "Variety" 1926 film advertisement in Motion Picture News (March 6, 1926 to April 24, 1926) (page 666 crop).jpg | writer = {{plainlist| '''Screenwriter:''' * Ewald Andre Dupont * [[Leo Birinski]] }} | based_on = ''[[The Oath of Stephan Huller (novel)|The Oath of Stephan Huller]]'' by [[Felix Hollaender]] | starring = {{Unbulleted list |[[Emil Jannings]]|[[Lya de Putti]]|[[Maly Delschaft]]|[[Warwick Ward]]}} | director = [[Ewald Andre Dupont]] | producer = [[Erich Pommer]] | music = | cinematography = {{Unbulleted list |[[Karl W. Freund]]|[[Carl Hoffmann]]}} | editing = | distributor = {{Unbulleted list |[[Universum Film A.G.|UFA]] (Germany)|[[Paramount Pictures]] (US)}} | released = {{Film date|1925|11|16|Germany|df=y}} | runtime = 95 minutes<ref>{{cite web | title = Varieté (Variety) | url = https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/1492 | website = Museum of Modern Art | publisher = MoMA | access-date = 11 December 2025 }}</ref> | country = Germany | language = {{Unbulleted list |[[Silent film]]|[[German language|German]] intertitles}} | budget = }}

'''''Variety''''' ({{langx|de|'''Varieté'''}} {{IPA|de|ˌvaʀi̯eˈte|}}, also known by the [[alternative title]]s '''''Jealousy''''' or '''''Vaudeville''''') is a 1925 German [[silent film|silent]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Ewald Andre Dupont]] based on the 1912 novel ''[[The Oath of Stephan Huller (novel)|The Oath of Stephan Huller]]'' by [[Felix Hollaender]].<ref>[https://portal.d-nb.de/opac.htm?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=Der%2BEid%2Bdes%2BStephan%2BHuller%2526any&currentPosition=1 Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek] listing. Retrieved 8 December 2010.</ref>

The trapeze scenes are set in the [[Berlin Wintergarten theatre]]. The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats.<ref>{{cite book |first=Rhode |last=Eric |title=A History of the Cinema: from its origins to 1970 |location=New York, USA |publisher=Da Capo Press |year=1985 |pages=184–185 |isbn=978-0-306-80233-1}}</ref>

The story was loosely [[Remake|remade]] by Dupont as the 1931 German sound film ''[[Salto Mortale (1931 German film)|Salto Mortale]]''.

==Plot== [[File:Varieté (E. A. Dupont, 1925).webm|thumb|thumbtime=0|''Variety'' (1925)]] In the film, Jannings portrays "Boss Huller", a former trapeze artist who was badly injured in a fall from the high wire and who now runs a seedy carnival with his wife and their child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new [[trapeze]] number. He falls in love with the new star, and the story ends in tragedy.

==Cast== * [[Emil Jannings]] as Boss Huller * [[Maly Delschaft]] as wife of Boss * [[Lya De Putti]] as Bertha * [[Warwick Ward]] as Artinelli * [[Georg John]] as Sailor

==Release== The film was heavily censored when it was released in the United States (except for New York) by excising the entire first reel, "thus destroying the motivation of the tragedy, implying that the acrobat was married to his Eurasian temptress."<ref>Morris Ernst and Pare Lorentz, (1930). ''Censored: The Private Life of the Movie'', New York: Jonathan Cape. p. 12.</ref>

==Influence== The film is noted for its innovative camerawork with highly expressive movement through space, accomplished by the expressionist cinematographer Karl Freund.<ref>Kristin Thompson. Youtube commentary for Varieté. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Tov1vgoVI</ref>

Decades later, the German director [[Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck]] cites being unexpectedly exposed to the film as a child of four as the start of his interest in the medium.<ref>Rohter, Larry, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/movies/09florian.html?partner=rss&emc=rss "German Director Plunges Beyond His Comfort Zone"], ''The New York Times'', 8 December 2010 (9 December 2010 p. C1 NY ed.). Retrieved 8 December 2010.</ref> In a list of the 100 most important German films, compiled in 1994 by the {{interlanguage link|Association of German Cinémathèques|de|Deutscher Kinematheksverbund}}, ''Variety'' was placed at #45.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 100 Most Important German Films |url=http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605042344/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf |archive-date=5 June 2015 |journal=Journal of Film Preservation |date=April 1997 |issue=54 |pages=41-43 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

This film is believed to contain the first documentation of [[unicycle hockey]] – it features a short sequence showing two people playing the game.

==See also== *''[[The House That Shadows Built]]'' (1931 promotional film by Paramount which excerpts this film)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|Varieté (1925 film)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0016481|title=Varieté}} *[http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/film/10489/variete Photographs and literature on Jealousy] *{{Internet Archive film|variety-1925-restored-720p-hd|Varieté}}

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