Watch Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Good reasons to watch Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A farmer is bewitched by a sophisticated urban woman into drowning his wife.
Arguably the last of the great silent movies, or the best of the last silent movies, Sunrise has several claims to fame:
- the first sequence shot / plan séquence of movie history (when the Man walks through a field to join the Woman From the City under the moonlight) and many other visual effects;
- possibly the first time a man cried on screen (before Gone with the Wind);
- an astronomous amount of work (and money) on the movie set, in particular to represent the city;
- “the most beautiful film in the word”, according to François Truffaut.
All You Need to Know about Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 - 94 min
Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Stars George O'Brien - Janet Gaynor - Margaret Livingston
What to drink A German bitter drink like Unterberg (a kind of Chartreuse)
