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Sunrise

George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor
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Overview

SUNRISE chronicles the murderous desires--and ultimate repentance--of a wayward husband. Deeply attracted by a sophisticated vamp who worms her way into the couple's simple country existence, the man agrees to take his wife into the city by rowboat...with plans to drown her on the way. In the midst of their journey, however, he realizes he cannot go through with the act. But the pure and innocent wife has already understood what he meant to do. Heartbroken, and with tear-filled eyes, she stumbles away from him through the city streets. Now he must find some way to win her back -- and prevent the fates from punishing him for his misdeeds...Director F.W. Murnau, and cinematographers Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, created stunning expressionist imagery that poignantly captures the characters' complex desires and points-of-view. This is one of the most visually gorgeous and emotionally rich silent films ever made.

Awards:
1928 - Academy Awards - Best Artistic Quality of Production - Winner
1928 - Academy Awards - Best Actress - Winner
1928 - Academy Awards - Best Cinematography - Winner

Main Cast & Crew:
F. W. Murnau - Director
F.W. Murnau - Director
John Farrell MacDonald
George O'Brien
Janet Gaynor
Margaret Livingston
Bodil Rosing
J. Farrell MacDonald
Ralph Sipperly
Arthur Housman
Arthur Houseman
Barry Norton

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand)
  • Run Time: 50
  • Color Format: B&W
  • UPC: 191091435502
  • Genre: DRAMA

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
A farmer on vacation in the city meets a seductress who convinces him to kill his wife. Returning to the country he realizes he loves his wife and can't go through with it, but fate intervenes in their rediscovered bliss. Silent. Academy Awards: Best Actress--Janet Gaynor (also for her work in "7th Heaven" and "Street Angel").

Notes:
SUNRISE was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. A silent film.

Reviews:
"...SUNRISE is intensely stylized....Film becomes poetry in SUNRISE....Every frame of this timeless masterpiece is visually awesome..." - 04/29/1986 Los Angeles Times, p.C2


"[A] masterpiece..." - 02/01/2004 Sight and Sound, p.70


"[I]t's one of cinema's most astonishing love stories: beautiful, immoral and infinitely tender..." - 02/01/2004 Total Film, p.116


"SUNRISE conquered time and gravity with a freedom that was startling to its first audiences. To see it today is to be astonished by the boldness of its visual experimentation." - 04/11/2004 Chicago Sun-Times, p.3


"Carl Mayer's screenplay...allows Murnau to achieve some astonishing visual effects." - 12/01/2005 Sight and Sound, p.91

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