Orphans of the Storm
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| Orphans of the Storm | |
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| Directed by | D.W. Griffith |
| Produced by | D.W. Griffith |
| Written by | D.W. Griffith |
| Starring | Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Joseph Schildkraut Frank Losee Katherine Emmett |
| Music by | Louis F. Gottschalk William Frederick Peters |
| Cinematography | Billy Bitzer Hendrik Sartov |
| Editing by | James Smith Rose Smith |
| Release date(s) | 1921 |
| Running time | 190 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | Silent film English intertitles |
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Orphans of the Storm is a 1921 film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.
This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major commercial success (after Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, and Broken Blossoms).
Like his earlier films, this used historical events to comment on contemporary events, in this case the French Revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. The film is about class conflict and a plea for inter class understanding and against destructive hatred. At one point in front of the Committee of Public Safety a main character pleas, "Yes I am an aristocrat, but a friend of the people."
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