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Orphans of the Storm

Live Piano Accompaniment by Martin Marks
Screening on Film
Directed by D.W. Griffith.
With Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut.
US, 1921, 35mm, black & white, silent, 150 min.

Considered Griffith’s last masterpiece, Orphans of the Storm was the final film collaboration between the great film director and his muse, Lillian Gish. Griffith gave the original scenario, based on Adolph Ennery’s 19th-century French play The Two Orphans, a much-needed twist by changing the setting to the French Revolution. Using the social and political upheaval as his backdrop, Orphans of the Storm became Griffith’s anti-communist manifesto.

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