Sunrise: A song of Two Humans (1927) F.W. Murnau
Sunrise: A song of Two Humans (1927) F.W. Murnau
Sunrise: A song of Two Humans (1927) F.W. Murnau

The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau | USA | 1927 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

This event has ended and tickets are no longer available.

When

Wed 9 Nov 2022

In his remarkable and groundbreaking first Hollywood feature, Murnau takes a simple, universal love story and gives it startling emotional impact through a breathtakingly cinematic combination of lyrical camera movement, model work, expressionistic special effects, early sync sound, German expressionism and American naturalism. In pure visual strokes, mixing the modern and traditional, Murnau creates one of the most moving and fluent works in cinema history. Featuring an Oscar-winning performance by Janet Gaynor, and beautifully modulated acting by George O’Brien and Margaret Livingston. Script by Carl Mayer.

Format: 35mm
Language: Silent with English Intertitles
Source: NFSA
Courtesy: National Film and Sound Archive, Australia
Runtime: 94 mins

Event duration

94 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

How to get there

Membership options

Mini membership
(3 consecutive weeks)
$27–$32

Annual memberships
$153–295

See full options

Also screening on Wed 9 November

About the program

The Brink of Life: F.W. Murnau, Cinematic Visionary

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888–1931) was a perfectionist, an aesthete and, in many ways, a visionary, whose poetic, painterly, literate and highly cinematic sensibilities brought to the golden age of German cinema new concepts of film form based on a synthesis of all the elements then in vogue – from Caligari-like horrors to an expressionist use of actors’ bodies through to a rugged, sometimes optimistic naturalism (especially in his American period).

Read the full program notes
F.W. Murnau directing

Plan your visit

Read our COVIDSafe visitor guidelines, information on accessibility, amenities, transport, dining options and more.

Start planning

About Melbourne Cinémathèque

Australia's longest-running film society, Melbourne Cinémathèque screens significant works of international cinema in the medium they were created, the way they would have originally screened.

Melbourne Cinémathèque is self-administered, volunteer-run, not-for-profit and membership-driven. 

Learn more | View the 2022 program | See membership options

Melbourne Cinémathèque - Dirk Bogarde in a still from Victim