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Three different negatives were
created for the film Der letzte Mann.

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One of them was for Germany,
one for general export,

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and the third for the USA.

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The surviving German negative
was preserved only incompletely,

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and was reconstructed in 2001/2002
with the aid of the following materials:

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an original negative from the
Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin;

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a print from the Museum
of Modern Art, New York,

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produced in Germany in 1936;
fragments of a duplicate

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possessed by the
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung

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of a missing German print;
as well as fragments of a print

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kept by the Cinématheque Suisse
in Lausanne.

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The reconstruction
was carried out in 2001/2002

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by Luciano Berriatua
and Camille Blot-Wellens

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on behalf of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-
Murnau-Stiftung.

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Laboratory work:
L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna

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The master negative of this edit
was used for the 2K digital version.

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Major damages to the original film material
have been removed for the HD version.

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THE LAST MAN

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In the Lead-Role:
EMIL JANNINGS

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Direction:
F. W. MURNAU

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Today, you are the first,
respected by everyone, a minister,

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a general, maybe even a prince —

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Do you know what
you'll be tomorrow?!

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For the Wedding Guests

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however, due to your period of service
of many years' standing,

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we've created an open position for you

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by sending the oldest employee
of our firm to a shelter,

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effective today.

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The reason for this measure

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is your old-age.

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Here,
at the place of his humiliation,

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the old man would waste away miserably
for the rest of his life

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and here the story would,
strictly speaking, be over.

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But the author is looking out for him
who has been abandoned by everyone,

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and so he bestows
upon him an epilogue,

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telling a story that —
unfortunately —

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usually doesn't occur
in real life.

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A SENSATIONAL INHERITANCE
As reported a short time ago,

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the celebrated Mexican multimillionaire
Mr. A. G. Monen died

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whilst washing his hands in the lavatory
of the Atlantic-Hotel.

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Upon going through his papers,
a sensational will for this eccentric man

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was found to the effect that the person
in whose arms he would happen to die

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was to become the sole heir
to his enormous fortune.

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Hence, the biblical promise,
that the last shall be the first,

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seems already to have been
fulfilled on earth,

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for the lucky one is —