Sunrise

Auringonnousu / Soluppgång. US (c) 1927 Fox Film. P: William Fox. D: F.W. Murnau. SC: Carl Mayer - based on the short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit" (1917) by Hermann Sudermann. DP: Charles Rosher, Karl Struss. PD: Rochus Gliese. M: Hugo Riesenfeld. Starring George O'Brien (Man), Janet Gaynor (Woman), Margaret Livingstone (City Woman). 96 min. The Killiam reconstructed version, high contrast print, screened without soundtrack. A SONG OF TWO HUMANS WORD COMPOSITION BY LAURA LINDSTEDT to Sunrise (1927) with actors Jussi Lehtonen (Man) and Hanna Ojala (Woman), music by Sanna Salmenkallio performed by Sanna Salmenkallio (violin) and Max Lilja (cello). Presented at Orion, Helsinki, 24 April 2005. The more I see Sunrise the more heavy and abstract it gets: beyond realism, beyond psychology it takes place in a Gestalt world, where everything is broadly sketched, which takes place in a space between sleep and being awake. The Man is the sleepwalker, the women are two psychic forces fighting over him. The Madonna and the Vamp, beyond melodrama. The word and music composition had an aspect of Dadaistic assault on the heavy imagery.