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The Midnight Sun (1926)

The Midnight Sun poster
Directed by
Dimitri Buchowetzki
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama set in Tsarist Russia before the revolution. It follows characters caught in a personal story amid a society on the brink of change.

somberhistoricalslow pacedmelancholicvisually datedstatelyatmospheric

What happens

The Midnight Sun is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, and Michael Vavitch. It is based on a novel by the French writer Pierre Benoît. The film is set in pre-Revolutionary Tsarist Russia. The film includes a brief scene shot in Technicolor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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