Also Known As	Sunrise
Genre	Crime :: Drama :: Romance
Date Released	23 September 1927
Production	Annenberg/CPB Project
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

[opening title cards] Title Card: This song of the Man and his Wife is of no place and every place; you might hear it anywhere, at any time. Title Card: For wherever the sun rises and sets, in the city`s turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same; sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.

The Man: [pleading to his wife] Don`t be afraid of me!

Trivia

Fox studio`s first ever feature film with a recorded score.The original negatives of the film were destroyed in a fire in 1937.

Was the first and only film to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences` (AMPAS) `Best Picture` award in the category of "Artistic Quality of Production" (or "Unique and Artistic Picture"). This was the only year that this award was ever given out.

The scenes in the city were not filmed on location. They were filmed on a vast and expensive set, built especially for the movie.

Many of the superimpositions throughout the film were created "in the camera". The camera would shoot one image at the side of the frame, blacking out the rest of the shot, then expose the film. They would put the exposed film back into the camera and shoot again, blocking out the area that already had an image on it.

Director F.W. Murnau wanted Camilla Horn (with whom he had worked in Germany on Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)) for the part of "The Wife", but she was under contract to the German studio UFA at the time and they refused to loan her out, so the part went to Janet Gaynor.

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this as the #82 Greatest Movie of All Time. It was the first inclusion of this film on the list.

Although well-received critically, this film did not do well at the box office, which led to the studio "reining in" F.W. Murnau creatively for his next several films.

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