Eternal Love (1929)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

drama film, silent film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two lovers in the Swiss Alps try to be together despite being trapped in loveless marriages. It is a silent film with music and sound effects directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

romanticmelancholicvisually lushslow-burntensedramaticbittersweetnostalgic

What happens

Eternal Love is a 1929 American sound romantic drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring John Barrymore and Camilla Horn. 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. Based on the novel Der Koenig der Bernina by Jakob Christoph Heer, the film is about two lovers living in the Swiss Alps who struggle to be together and escape their loveless marriages. Eternal Love was the last silent film for both Lubitsch and Barrymore. The story was remade as a 1957 Austrian film The King of Bernina. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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