The Wedding March (1926)

Directed by

Erich von Stroheim

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent film about a young woman from a poor family who falls in love with a charming but irresponsible prince. Their romance is threatened by the prince's family and his arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress.

romanticmelancholicslow-paceddramaticdecadentvisually ornatetragicbittersweet

What happens

The Wedding March is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. The film stars Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts. Paramount Pictures forced von Stroheim to create two films from the footage, the second being The Honeymoon (eventually re-edited back into one film for a re-release). The Honeymoon is now considered lost, the only known copy destroyed in a fire in France in 1959. In 2003, The Wedding March was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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