Evangeline (1908)

Directed by

Sidney Olcott

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

11 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent short film follows the story of a woman separated from her beloved during the forced deportation of French-speaking Acadians by British authorities in Canada.

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What happens

Evangeline è un cortometraggio muto del 1908 prodotto dalla Kalem Company tratto dal poema di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow che racconta la deportazione degli Acadiani, le popolazioni francofone, da parte dei britannici in Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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