The Brute (1920)

Directed by

Oscar Micheaux

Genre

drama film, silent film, race film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A boxer faces struggles in a racially charged society. The film follows his personal and professional battles, though no complete copy of this silent drama survives today.

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What happens

The Brute is a 1920 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. No print of the film is known to exist and the production is believed to be a lost film. The original version of the film included a scene where the boxer defeats a white rival, but Micheaux was forced to remove the scene by censors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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