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Verenigde Staten
Drama
197 minuten / 176 minuten ('Killiam Shows'-versie)

 Moviemeter: nr. 94 in de tip 250

geregisseerd door D.W. Griffith
met Mae Marsh, Robert Harron en F.A. Turner

Aan de hand van vier historische voorbeelden laat de filmmaker zien dat de mens van nature onverdraagzaam is. Van het oude Babylon naar Judea (waar Jezus Christus wordt veroordeeld); van het zestiende-eeuwse Parijs naar 'modern' Amerika.


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INTOLERANCE: LOVE'S STRUGGLE THROUGHOUT THE AGES (1916)


imdb.com/title/tt0006864/
User Rating: 8.1/10   4,952 votes

Studio: Kino Video

DVD Release Date: December 10, 2002


Director: D.W. Griffith


Description
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D. W. Griffith had a vision of the movies as the greatest spiritual force the world had ever known. Just one year after the huge success of Birth of a Nation, he was emboldened to prove his faith in the new medium with the superproduction Intolerance.

Four separate stories are interwoven: the fall of Babylon, the death of Christ, the massacre of the Huguenots, and a contemporary (early 20th Century) drama -- all crosscut and building with enormous energy to a thrilling chase and finale. Through the juxtaposition of these well-known sagas, Griffith joyously makes clear his markedly deterministic view of history, namely that the suffering of innocents makes possible the salvation of the current generation, symbolized by the boy in the modern love story.

Griffith's concept and execution of Intolerance are awesome, but audiences of 1916 were generally bewildered by his lofty intentions. He aimed too high and spent the rest of his career paying off the large debts that his vision had incurred.


Format: NTSC


Runtime (main feature): 197 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: English intertitles



DISC FEATURES:

# Filmed introduction of Orson Welles.
# Excerpts from Cabiria (1914) and The Last Days of Pompeii (1914), two films that inspired Griffith to make Intolerance.
# Text excerpts from "Away With Meddlers: A Declaration of Independence" and "The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America," two pamphlets published by D. W. Griffith at the time of Intolerance's release.
# Excerpt from The Fall of Babylon (1916) which offers an alternate (happy) ending to the Babylonian sequence.
# About the score.


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