Description |
1 online resource (115 min.) |
Summary |
Made on location in Germany during the period of the Great Inflation, Isn't Life Wonderful is a tender ode to the resilience of the human spirit and the all-conquering power of love. Carol Dempster delivers her most moving performance as Inga, a Polish war orphan who struggles to provide for the family that has taken her in, while accumulating a meager dowry from the rubble of a depression-stricken Berlin so that she can marry Paul (Neil Hamilton). Returning to his family, weakened by the battlefront's poisonous gases, Paul invests in his and Inga's future by tending a secret garden which he hopes will provide resources for them to live, and which serves as a powerful symbol of the irrepressible optimism of the two young lovers rising triumphantly from the ashes of a bitter earth. Filled with poignant moments reminiscent of Griffith's better-known classics such as A Corner in Wheat and Way Down East, the rarely-seen Isn't Life Wonderful proves Griffith's flair for small-scale, tender drama. This edition features the original 1924 score composed and compiled by Cesare Sodero and Louis Silvers, arranged and performed by Robert Israel (piano) and Galina Golovin (violin) |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed January 03, 2018) |
Cast |
Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Helen Lowell |
Notes |
Silent; English intertitles and musical accompaniment |
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Refugees -- Germany -- Drama
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Polish people -- Germany -- Drama
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Man-woman relationships -- Germany -- Drama
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Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Germany -- Drama
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Man-woman relationships.
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Polish people.
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Reconstruction (1914-1939)
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Refugees.
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SUBJECT |
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Drama
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Subject |
Germany.
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Germany -- Berlin.
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Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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History.
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Romance films.
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Silent films.
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Silent films.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Romance films.
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Films muets.
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Films de fiction.
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Films d'amour.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948, director, producer.
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Dempster, Carol, actor
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Hamilton, Neil, 1899-1984, actor.
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Flicker Alley (Firm), distributor.
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