Orphans of the Storm (1921)
- Directed by
- D. W. Griffith
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 104 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.
How it feels
A story set in France before and during the French Revolution about two orphaned sisters who become separated. One sister is a blind aristocrat while the other searches for her through the violence of the revolution.
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What happens
Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 American silent melodrama film directed by D. W. Griffith and set in late-18th-century France, before and during the French Revolution. The last Griffith film to feature both Lillian and Dorothy Gish, it was a commercial failure compared to his earlier works, such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). Griffith used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution to warn about the rise of Bolshevism. The film is about class conflict and a polemic for "inter-class understanding" and against "destructive hatred". At one point, in front of the Committee of Public Safety, a main character pleads, "Yes I am an aristocrat, but a friend of the people." The film is based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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