Hypocrites (1915)

Directed by

Nate Watt, Lois Weber

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

49 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film uses allegory to criticize religious hypocrisy. It follows a female figure representing truth as she exposes the hidden faults of supposedly virtuous people.

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What happens

Hypocrites, also known as The Hypocrites and The Naked Truth, is a 1915 silent drama film written and directed by Lois Weber (1879–1939). The film contains several full nude scenes, and is said to include the first appearance of full frontal nudity in a non-pornographic film by an American actress (Margaret Edwards). The film is regarded as anticlerical, and the nudity, after causing trouble with censorship, was deemed justified by its religious context. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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