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Sunrise

ORIGINAL TITLE

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

YEAR

1927

RUNNING TIME

94 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

F.W. Murnau

SCREENWRITER

Carl Mayer

COMPOSER

Hugo Riesenfeld

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Charles Rosher & Karl Struss (B&W)

CAST

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Fox Film Corporation

AWARDS

1927: 3 Academy Awards: Best Outstanding Production, Actress (Gaynor), Cinematography

GENRE

Drama. Romance | Romantic drama. Silent Film. Cult movie

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

In 1928 Sunrise won Oscars for Janet Gaynor as Best Actress and cinematography as a "Unique and Artistic Picture". In 1967 it was declared "the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema" by key French new wave magazine Cahiers du Cinema. Released with a synchronised score and effects soundtrack but no dialogue, it is a cinematic landmark from the transition period between silent cinema and the talkies. Beginning as a prototype film noir in which a farmer (George O' Brien) plans the murder of his wife (Gaynor) with his vacationing lover from the city (Margaret Livingstone), the film develops from tense thriller into a story of reawakened love and redemption.

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