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Mignon (1915)

Mignon poster
Directed by
William Nigh
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wandering girl with a mysterious past meets a young man traveling with a theater group. Their encounter leads to a story of love and hidden identity set against a backdrop of traveling performers.

silent-eradramaticslow-pacedmelancholicromanticclassical

What happens

Mignon is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh with production supervised by Alexander E. Beyfuss. It is based on the 1866 opera Mignon that was from the 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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