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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.
- Rationale for study
- POINTS - Key Elements of Film Form (Micro Features)
- POINTS - Meaning & Response
- POINTS – Contexts
- SPECIALIST STUDY AREA - DEBATES: REALISM VS EXPRESSIONISM
• Sunrise is a ‘super-production, an experimental film and a visionary poem’ (Martin Scorsese). The film is unique in that it is a German Expressionist film made with German talent for a Hollywood Studio (Fox). It reflects silent film at its peak as an art form, released just days before the premiere of the first ‘talkie’, The Jazz Singer.
Cinematography The opening vacation montage employs multiple exposures and super-impositions to convey summertime in an expressionist style. The film uses light sources such as a candle on the table and light through a window ̶ this use of single light sources is typical of the late silent period. When the Man and the Wife renew their love in the...
Representations The Woman from the City represents the ‘flapper’ figure. Flappers were women in the 1920s who enjoyed a new-found freedom and American jazz music. They rejected Victorian modes of dress, favouring short bobbed hair and short shirts. Here, the flapper is represented as a threat to the stability of marriage. The characters are univers...
Technological • Murnau uses every technical device available to filmmakers at that time. The film exemplifies the late silent period, where filmmaking had reached its artistic peak. Institutional Sunrise was Fox’s most expensive silent film, intended as a ‘prestige picture’ for Fox to demonstrate that they were purveyors of high cinematic art, as w...
STARTING POINTS Sunrise calls into question Bazin’s notion that realist devices such as long takes and deep-focus are opposed to expressionism. Murnau employs expressionist and realist aesthetics. He utilises both montage and deep-focus and long takes. The subjective camera serves to merge fantasy and reality. 2
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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.
Sunrise: Directed by F.W. Murnau. With George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing. 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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- Drama, Romance
- F.W. Murnau
- 1927-11-04
Mar 23, 2010 · To a significant extent, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, although shot in America (exteriors at Lake Arrowhead), is a Ufa production. Carl Mayer, who had written The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in addition to Murnau’s The Last Laugh and Tartüff, wrote the screenplay in Germany, where most of the planning for the film was done.
Oct 31, 2022 · What can one say that hasn’t already been said about F.W. Murnau’s lyrical masterpiece, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). The film marks the German auteur’s first American film after being coaxed out of Germany to the burgeoning Hollywood by producer William Fox, the founder of Fox Film Corporation.
The plot of this film is typical of nineteenth-century domestic melodrama, involving the temptations held out to a young farmer, living happily with his wife and child, by a city vamp, who...
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