Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 65 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two childhood friends are separated and later reunited by fate as adults. Peter is wrongly imprisoned for killing a man in self defense. The lovers discover they can meet each other in their dreams and share a life together there.

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What happens

Peter Ibbetson is a 1935 American black-and-white drama/fantasy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding. The film is loosely based on the 1891 novel of the same name by George du Maurier. A tale of a love that transcends all obstacles, it relates the story of two youngsters who are separated in childhood and then drawn together by destiny years later. Even though they are separated in real life because Peter is unjustly convicted of murder (it was actually self-defense), they discover they can dream themselves into each other's consciousness while asleep. In this way, they live out their lives together. The transitions between reality and fantasy are captured by the cinematography of Charles Lang, as discussed in the documentary Visions of Light (1992). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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