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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1927
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Sunrise Alternative
Introduction
“Along with Sjöstrom’s The Wind and Vidor’s The Crowd, Sunrise marked the summit (the end) of the silent period’s achievements and was a portent of the cinema to come.”
Jean-André Fieschi, Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, 1980
Associated with 1920s German Expressionism, with its exaggerated sets and lighting techniques, F.W. Murnau brought the style with him to Hollywood for this expensive super-production.
The simple story of a husband’s betrayal of his wife with a treacherous city girl, the film moves from a fairytale-like depiction of rural life to a dynamic portrait of the bustling modern American city. Explored in elaborate tracking shots by Charles Rocher and Karl Struss’s pioneering camerawork, as when the unnamed Man and Wife first arrive by tram, the city set was one of the most costly yet produced.
The result was a commercial flop, though the achievement did not go unheralded: Sunrise was awarded a special Oscar for unique and artistic production at the first ever Academy Awards.
A companion piece to Sunrise, in Murnau’s City Girl (1929) a farmer’s son marries a big-city girl and brings her home to live on the farm.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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the man
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the wife
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the woman from the city
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the maid
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the photographer
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the hairdresser
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the manicure girl
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the obtrusive gentleman
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the obliging gentleman
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barbershop manager
Gino Corrado (uncredited)
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angry driver
Gibson Gowland (uncredited)
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dancehall manager
Sidney Bracey (uncredited)
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head waiter
Phillips Smalley (uncredited)
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dancer
Barry Norton (uncredited)
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cast member
Sally Eilers (uncredited)
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cast member
Herman Bing (uncredited)
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cast member
Robert Kortman (uncredited)
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cast member
Robert Parrish (uncredited)
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cast member
Leo White (uncredited)
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Assistant Director
Production:
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Production Company
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Studio Head
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Producer
Writing:
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Scenario
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Titles
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Titles
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Comedy Consultant
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Based on novel 'Die Reise nach Tilsit"
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Director of Photography
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Assistant Cameraman
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Assistant Cameraman
Stills:
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Stills
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Editor
Design:
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Art Director
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Art Department
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Assistant Art Director
Make-up:
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Make-up
Music:
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Musical Score
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Musical Score (Los Angeles Première)
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The Greatest Films of All Time 2012
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