Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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Directed by F. W. Murnau.
With George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingstone.
US, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 91 min.
With George O’Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingstone.
US, 1927, 35mm, black & white, silent, 91 min.
The great German director F.W. Murnau handpicked Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature. A masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, Sunrise tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention. The relatively simple story revolves around a hard-working farmer (O’Brien) torn between devotion to his virtuous wife (Gaynor) and desire for a seductive vamp from the city (Livingstone).
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