Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F. W. Murnau · 1927 CE · Film · Modern / American · Modernist

A farmer has fallen for a woman from the city, who proposes he drown his wife and sell the land. He takes his wife out on the lake, then rows on to the city with her rather than home. A marriage tried and retried across a single day and night.

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• ↓ Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles · 1941 CE · Film — influenced by this

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