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The Monastery of Sendomir (1920)

The Monastery of Sendomir poster
Original title
Klostret i Sendomir
Directed by
Victor Sjöström
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 16m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy count believes his wife is unfaithful. He takes a dark path to discover the truth and faces severe consequences.

gothicmelancholicbroodingatmospherictragicdarkvisually starksomberslow-burn

What happens

The Monastery of Sendomir (Swedish: Klostret i Sendomir) is a 1920 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on an 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer. It has also been released in the UK as The Secret of the Monastery. A German adaptation of the story The Monastery of Sendomir, directed by Rudolf Meinert, had been released the previous year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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