The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

D.W. Griffith

Escritores:

Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (novel)
Thomas F. Dixon Jr. (play) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 marzo 1915 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Historia | Romance | Guerra | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

Mighty Spectacle

Plot:

The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war.

Plot Keywords:

Civil War | Lincoln Assassination | Ku Klux Klan | Assassination | Public Domain

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Consider--it's 90 years old!

Reparto

Lillian Gish	...	Elsie Stoneman
Mae Marsh	...	Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall	...	Col. Ben Cameron (as Henry Walthall)
Miriam Cooper	...	Margaret Cameron
Mary Alden	...	Lydia Brown
Ralph Lewis	...	Austin Stoneman
George Siegmann	...	Silas Lynch (as George Seigmann)
Walter Long	...	Gus
Robert Harron	...	Tod Stoneman
Wallace Reid	...	Jeff (blacksmith) (as Wallace Reed)
Joseph Henabery	...	Abraham Lincoln / 13 other bits (as Jos. Henabery)
Elmer Clifton	...	Phil Stoneman
Josephine Crowell	...	Mrs. Cameron
Spottiswoode Aitken	...	Dr. Cameron
George Beranger	...	Wade Cameron (as J.A. Beringer)

También conocida como:

In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (USA) (cut version)
The Birth of the Nation; Or The Clansman (second copyright title)
The Clansman (USA) (Los Angeles première title)
El nacimiento de una nación (Argentina) (International: Spanish title) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

190 min (16 fps) | USA:125 min (video version) | USA:187 min (DVD) | Argentina:165 min

País:

USA

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Clasificación:

Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:15 (2002) | UK:15 (video rating) | UK:U (original rating) | Sweden:15 | Canada:G (Quebec)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Big Bear Lake, California, USA

Compañía:

David W. Griffith Corp.

Trivialidades:

Joseph Henabery, who was one of D.W. Griffith's chief assistant directors as well as contributing research, played 13 roles in the film in addition to his main role as Abraham Lincoln.

Errores:

Anacronismos: Car tire tracks are visible in the KKK segment.

Citas:

Flora Cameron: [letter to Ben] - and you have really grown a moustache - oh my! I'm just dying, dying to see you. Well, I'm growing up too - they say I'm such a big girl now you wouldn't know me. XXXXXX Kisses Your little
[crossed out]
Flora Cameron: big Sis

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Ethnic Notions (1986)

Consider--it's 90 years old!

As I read these comments on this most controversial film, what is coming across is a surfeit of emotion that any film rarely engenders. I wonder if any of our modern films will be able to evoke such passionate response 90 years from now and the fact is, I think not. Yes, the film is racist. Yes, the film is a watershed for cinema. And no matter what you think of it, it's still got people stirred up, ready to scream and yell and be appalled, disgusted, outraged, etc. Can there be any doubt as to its greatness if it still has such a life today? Its greatness certainly doesn't lie in its subject matter, but in the fact that this silent film can provoke such reactions in a generation weaned on computer graphic images, a generation that views the silents much as they view watching a parade of fossils drift by. I am literally stunned by the power of a piece of film to move so many so long after it came into the world. Perhaps its greatest lesson is the impact films have on us and our society and how powerful those moving images can really be. Something tells me that 90 more years will go by and this message board--if it's still here--will be still be getting impassioned opinions from those who have just seen Birth of a Nation. My word--what immortality!