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Sunrise
1927 1h 34m Not Rated
Drama
,
Romance
8.1
98%
92%
79%
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A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
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Directed By
F. W. Murnau
Written By
Hermann Sudermann
,
Carl Mayer
Studio
Fox Film Corporation
Cast of Sunrise
George O’Brien
The Man (Anses)
Janet Gaynor
The Wife (Indre)
Margaret Livingston
The Woman from the City
Bodil Rosing
The Maid
J. Farrell MacDonald
The Photographer
Ralph Sipperly
The Barber
Jane Winton
The Manicure Girl
Arthur Housman
The Obtrusive Gentleman
Eddie Boland
The Obliging Gentleman
Herman Bing
Streetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
Dance Hall Manager (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Manager of Hair Salon (uncredited)
Vondell Darr
(uncredited)
Sally Eilers
Woman in Dance Hall (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland
Angry Driver (uncredited)
Thomas Jefferson
Old Seaman (uncredited)
Bob Kortman
Villager (uncredited)
F. W. Murnau
Dancer (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Ballroom Dancer / Kissing Couple (uncredited)
Robert Parrish
Boy (uncredited)
Sally Phipps
Ballroom Dancer / Kissing Couple (uncredited)
Harry Semels
Carnival Gallery Man with Pig (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley
Head Waiter (uncredited)
Leo White
Barber (uncredited)
Clarence Wilson
Money Lender (uncredited)
Sunrise Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1928) 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.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Rich, strange and gorgeous, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise shows what an artist of the late silent era could accomplish cinematically, backed by an open checkbook and fueled by the highest aspirations even in the simplest of morality tales.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Sunrise is often rightfully noted for its technical achievements but what is often overlooked is its emotional power.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
This partly expressionistic masterwork is often considered one of the greatest of all silent films.
New York Post
Wilella Waldorf
Any one who prefers an intelligent and stimulating film to the usual trash is urged to go and see it for himself.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
In his first American film, Sunrise... the German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau creates some of the greatest images in the history of the cinema.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
F.W. Murnau's career-peak nova, the crowning film from that sacred, edge-of-the-abyss year of 1927.
Variety
Variety Staff
In its artistry, dramatic power and graphic suggestion it goes a long way toward realizing the promise of this foreign director in his former works, notably Faust.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Released in 1927, the last year of silent film, it's a pinnacle of that lost art.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
Mr. Murnau proves by Sunrise that he can do just as fine work in Hollywood as he ever did in Germany.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Reckless, romantic, and extravagant.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
The visual poetry it expended on an admittedly simple, cornball story (country bumpkin seduced by city vamp, pursued and redeemed by his pure-hearted wife) remains fairly dazzling.
Battleship Pretension
Sarah Brinks
I like that the film wasn't overly reliant on intertitles. Murnau let his actors tell the story. The actors are masters of silent film acting which at times is a little cheesy but works within the medium.
The MacGuffin
Allen Almachar
One of the most moving and technically sound films ever produced.
New Yorker
Pauline Kael
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.
Washington Star
Star Staff
Not since the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and the Last Laugh, those two European products of cinema art, has the screen offered anything that is even remotely comparable to Sunrise, from any or all angles.
La Movie Boeuf
David N. Butterworth
Ninety years on, "Sunrise" still packs a wallop, technically, even if its storyline is a tad melodramatic.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
A movie in which every single moment is exactly right.
Cine-Mundial
Francisco J. Ariza
Innovative through technology and development which will, without a doubt, be echoed in films yet to come. [Full review in Spanish]
TIME Magazine
Picturesquely soporific.
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