Intolerance - 1916 (Full HD Movie) D.W. Griffith
Intolerance - 1916 (Full HD Movie) D.W. Griffith.
The film is considered one of the enduring masterpieces of the Silent Era.
"Intolerance, A Drama of Comparisons" consists of four independent stories with their own different plots and casts of actors. The four films are united by a common theme.
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Produced by D. W. Griffith
Scenario by D. W. Griffith and Harry E. Aitken
Starring Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Walter Long, Miriam Cooper (Modern Story), Constance Talmadge, Margery Wilson, Lillian Gish and many others
Cinematography Billy Bitzer
Editing by D. W. Griffith, James Smith, Rose Smith
Distributed by Triangle Distributing Corporation, Wark Distributing Corporation
Release date September 5, 1916
Running time 197 min.
Country United States
Language Silent film, English intertitles
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Intolerance 1916 Full HD Movie
Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history. Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era. The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone. Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and more than 3,000 extras. The film consisted of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history.
Intolerance is a 1916 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent film. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: (1) A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; (2) a Judean story: Jesus Christ; (3) a French story: the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572; and (4) a Babylonian story: the Battle of Opis to Persia in 539 BC. Each story had its own tint in the original print which was criticized by the NAACP and other groups as perpetuating racial stereotypes and glorifying the Ku Klux Klan.
Storylines
This complex film consists of four distinct, but parallel, stories—intercut with increasing frequency as the film builds to a climax—that demonstrate mankind's persistent intolerance throughout the ages. The film sets up moral and psychological connections among the different stories. The timeline covers approximately 2,500 years:
The ancient "Babylonian" story (539 BC) depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia. The fall of Babylon is a result of intolerance arising from a conflict between devotees of two rival Babylonian gods—Bel-Marduk and Ishtar.
The Biblical "Judean" story (c. 27 AD) recounts how—after the Wedding at Cana and the Jesus and the woman taken in adultery—intolerance led to the Crucifixion of Jesus. This sequence is the shortest of the four.
The Renaissance "French" story (1572) tells of the religious intolerance that led to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestant Huguenots by Catholic royals.
The American "Modern" story (c. 1914) demonstrates how crime, moral Hardline, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
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