Sunrise

Name: Sunrise
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 4, 1927
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 95
Cast: Arthur Housman, Bodil Rosing, Eddie Boland, George O'Brien, Herman Bing

1927

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Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: November 4, 1927 | Passed

Starring: Arthur Housman, Bodil Rosing, Eddie Boland, George O'Brien, Herman Bing, J. Farrell MacDonald, Jane Winton, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Ralph Sipperly

Summary: A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when she discovers their scheme.

Director: F.W. Murnau

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 94 min

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Jamie Russell

A landmark in the history of cinema that turns melodrama into high art with the story of a hard-up farmer (George O'Brien) whose affair with a city girl (Margaret Livingston) leads him to the brink of killing his doting wife (Janet Gaynor). Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

An undisputed masterpiece, and that rarest of films that achieves absolute perfection in every area. Read full review

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Noel Murray

Sunrise remains a magnificent tale of adultery and forgiveness, and contains more lessons in visual storytelling in any given five-minute sequence than most film schools deliver in a semester. Read full review

Pauline Kael

A near masterpiece...The story is told in a flowing, lyrical German manner that is extraordinarily sensual, yet is perhaps too self-conscious, too fable-like for American audiences.

Dave Kehr

The miracle of Murnau’s mise-en-scene is to fill the simple plot and characters with complex, piercing emotions, all evoked visually through a dense style that embraces not only spectacular expressionism but a subtle and delicate naturalism. Read full review

Bill Weber

A horn of cinematic plenty continuously spills from Sunrise, not only in its production design and Murnau’s dreamlike images (rendered by a pair of American cinematographers in the German émigré’s first Hollywood film), but in an unswerving commitment to the varied tones of screenwriter Carl Mayer’s scenario. Read full review

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Its dreamlike realism is also to be enjoyed: when lovers appear to walk across a crowded city street, into (superimposed) fields, and back to kiss in a traffic jam, you have an example of True Love styled to cinema perfection. Simple, and intense images of unequalled beauty. Read full review

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