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La Bohème (1916)

La Bohème poster
Original title
La Vie de Bohème
Directed by
Albert Capellani
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film set in 1830s Paris. It follows a group of struggling artists and the love story between a poet and a seamstress who is ill.

melancholicromanticslow-burnvisually lushhistoricalclassictendertragic

What happens

La vie de Bohème (sometimes referred to as La Bohème ) is a 1916 American silent historical film directed by Albert Capellani and distributed by World Pictures. The star of this version is Alice Brady, whose father William A. Brady was the founder of World Pictures. This film is one of many silent versions, actually the third or fourth. Later silent versions appeared in 1917 and 1926 starring Lillian Gish. Director Albert Capellani's brother, Paul Capellani, who appears in this film, had made his own short version in 1912. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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