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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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