The Scarlet Letter (1926)

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 33 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Puritan woman in 17th-century New England is ostracized after having a child out of wedlock. She refuses to name the father, living under the weight of public shame and hidden guilt.

melancholicsomberslow-burnintrospectivevisually starkquietly intenseperiod atmosphererestrained drama

What happens

The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 American silent drama film based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne and directed by Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom). Prints of the film survive in the MGM/United Artists film archives and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film is now considered the best film adaptation of Hawthorne's novel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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