Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Murnau's foray into American cinema is a unique dream of crime, love, loss and redemption which pioneered the use of synchronous sound on film.

Introduced by Kevin Brownlow.

For Murnau's foray into American cinema, he constructed a world free of geographic and social specifics - a dreamlike rural landscape and a brash cityscape that is everywhere and nowhere. Made at the end of the silent era, it pioneered the use of synchronous sound on film, for Hugo Reisenfeld's score as well as such sound effects as traffic, whistles and church bells. Sunrise stands as a haunting fable that fuses German Expressionism with American naturalism - a dream of crime, love, loss and redemption unique in cinema.

Directed by:

FW Murnau

Cast:

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor

Country:

USA

Year:

1927

Running time:

95min

Certificate:

U