Sunrise
Summary:
Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of the wordless cinema at its zenith. Based on the Hermann Sudermann novel -A Trip to Tilsit, this "Song of Two Humans" takes place in a colorful farming community, where people from the city regularly take their weekend holidays. Local farmer George O'Br... Full Summary >>
Cast:
George O'Brien - (The Man)
Janet Gaynor - (The Wife)
Margaret Livingston - (The Woman from the City)
Bodil Rosing - (The Maid)
John Farrell MacDonald - (The Photographer)
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Review:
Appearing at the dawn of the talkies, F.W. Murnau's first American film represented Hollywood silent artistry at its peak. Murnau's graceful moving camera, expressive lighting, and superimpositions lyrically evoke the inner passion, pain, and romanticism driving the love triangle among a simple country couple and a vampish city woman. Though ... Continue >>
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