Orphans of the Storm (1921)

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Country:

USA

Language:

English (intertitles)

Release Date:

28 December 1921 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Árvák a viharban See more »

Filming Locations:

Florence, Tuscany, Italy See more »

Production Co:

D.W. Griffith Productions See more »

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Runtime:

150 min  | Germany: 152 min

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Trivia

D.W. Griffith used this movie as a means of commenting, obliquely, on contemporary politics of his time. He drew parallels between the anarchist mobs that overthrew the French aristocrats, and what he says in opening titles to the film are the present American dangers of succumbing to the kind of "anarchy and Bolshevism" he perceived in the recent Russian Revolution. It is a great historical irony that those Bolsheviks Griffith railed against were quite smitten with the director's incomparable ways of generating film tension in crosscutting as well as his cinematic means of conveying good and evil via sophisticated editing and framing techniques. As the father of film syntax Griffith was an enormous influence on the Soviet filmmakers Sergei M. Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, who were inspired by many of his films including the anti-Bolshevik Orphans of the Storm. See more »

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