Tempest (1928)

Directed by

Victor Tourjansky, Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A soldier and a princess fall in love during the Russian Revolution. Their romance is tested by war and class divisions.

romanticsilentdramaticstylizedvisually lushsoaringintimateclassical

What happens

Tempest is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Sam Taylor. 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. V. I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko wrote the screenplay and William Cameron Menzies won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the film in 1929, the first year of the awards ceremony. John Barrymore and Camilla Horn star in the film, with Louis Wolheim co-starring. Preserved by two US archives George Eastman House and UCLA Film and TV. It has been released on DVD by Image Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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