Synopsis
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Cast
- George O’BrienThe Man (Anses)
- Janet GaynorThe Wife (Indre)
- Margaret LivingstonThe Woman from the City
- Bodil RosingThe Maid
- J. Farrell MacDonaldThe Photographer
- Ralph SipperlyThe Barber
- Jane WintonThe Manicure Girl
- Arthur HousmanThe Obtrusive Gentleman
- Eddie BolandThe Obliging Gentleman
- Herman BingStreetcar Conductor (uncredited)
Recommandations
- 100
BBC
A landmark in the history of cinema that turns melodrama into high art with the story of a hard-up farmer (George O'Brien) whose affair with a city girl (Margaret Livingston) leads him to the brink of killing his doting wife (Janet Gaynor). - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
The more you consider Sunrise the deeper it becomes -- not because the story grows any more subtle, but because you realize the real subject is the horror beneath the surface. - 100
The A.V. Club
Sunrise remains a magnificent tale of adultery and forgiveness, and contains more lessons in visual storytelling in any given five-minute sequence than most film schools deliver in a semester. - 90
Chicago Reader
The miracle of Murnau’s mise-en-scene is to fill the simple plot and characters with complex, piercing emotions, all evoked visually through a dense style that embraces not only spectacular expressionism but a subtle and delicate naturalism. - 90
The New Yorker
The greatness of Murnau’s work—maybe even the essence of beauty—is that it offers much to talk about, because it is neither emptily decorative nor devoid of ideas, but, rather, embodies ideas even as it surpasses them, and conveys, by the very fact of its being, emotions far beyond those arising from story, character, or situation. - 90
The New Yorker
A near masterpiece...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. - 88
ReelViews
Sunrise is often rightfully noted for its technical achievements but what is often overlooked is its emotional power. - 80
Variety
Sunrise is a distinguished contribution to the screen, made in this country, but produced after the best manner of the German school. 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.
