The Wind (1928)

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 135 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman moves to a remote prairie town and marries a kind but plain farmer. She struggles to survive the relentless wind and the harsh isolation of the frontier.

intensemelancholicaustereharrowingclaustrophobicprimalelementalvisually starkdoomed

What happens

The Wind is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. 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 movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the 1925 novel of the same name written by Dorothy Scarborough. Featuring Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson and Montagu Love, it is one of the last films released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer without audible dialogue and is considered to be among the greatest "silent" films. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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