The Unchanging Sea (1910)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

14 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent drama follows a fisherman who leaves his wife to go to sea. When he does not return, she waits for years and raises their child alone. The film shows the endurance of love and the passage of time by the shore.

romanticmelancholicslow-burnpoeticvisually simpleemotionalbittersweetquiet

What happens

The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film survives in the Library of Congress film archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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