Intolerance (film, 1916)

Intolérance ( Love' S Struggle Throughout the Old ) is a dumb film American of D.W. Griffith, left in 1916.

The project of Griffith

Griffith wants to answer by this film the charge of racism uttered in its connection after Naissance of a nation .

Synopsis

Four times are presented in alternation to denounce intolerance: the repression of the strikes, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Passion of Christ and Babylon. From ancient Babylon at the beginning of the 20th century, an illustration in four episodes, cruelty and ferocity of the man towards his next.

the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre is the tragic framework of the loves of a catholic soldier, Prosper Latour, and of a young person huguenote, Brown Eyes (brown Eyes).

Data sheet

original Title: Intolerance
Realizer: D.W. Griffith
Scenario: D.W. Griffith
Production: Wark Producing Corporation
Left: 1916
Kind: historical epopee
Lasted: 200 minutes

Distribution

Lillian Gish : the woman with the cradle
Mae Marsh: the beloved
Robert Harron: the young man
Sam De Grasse: Arthur Jenkins
Eugene Pallets: Prosper Latour
Margery Wilson: Brown Eyes
Constancy Talmadge: the girl of the mountain
Elmer Clifton: the rhapsode

Around film

Spectacular which cost more 1 750 000 dollars, Intolérance made work 60.000 observers, workmen, technicians and actors.

Griffith had just founded with Thomas Ince and Mack Sennett the Triangle firm. The commercial failure of film involved the fall of it.

See too

Intolerance on Internet Movie Database
an analysis of the film

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