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Sunrise

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Sunrise
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NR,1hr 50min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Released:
January 1, 1927
Director:
F.W. Murnau
Distributor:
Eureka
Starring:
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston  ...more
Synopsis: 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'Brien, happily married to Janet Gaynor, falls under the seductive spell of Margaret Livingston, a temptress from The City. He callously ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG 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 the city sequences play up too many country bumpkin-isms, ... Full Review
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George O'Brien
The Man
Janet Gaynor
The Wife
Margaret Livingston
The Woman from the City
Bodil Rosing
The Maid
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