Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

11 min

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman waits by the sea for her lover to return from a long voyage. The film shows her loneliness and the passing of time as she watches the horizon.

melancholicpoignantslow-burnold-fashionedemotionalquietbittersweet

What happens

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (deutsch: Weiße Linien auf einer trüben See) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmmelodram des Regisseurs David Wark Griffith aus dem Jahr 1909. Das Drehbuch schrieb Stanner E. V. Taylor, der Stummfilm ist eine Produktion der American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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