Sunrise

aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
 
(1927)

AFI Top 100 / Drama / Silent

94 minutes

Directed by F. W. Murnau

Cast:

George O'Brien as Man
Janet Gaynor as Wife
Margaret Livingston as Woman From the City
Bodil Rosing as Maid
J. Farrell MacDonald as Photographer
Ralph Sipperly as Barber
Jane Winton as Manicure Girl
Arthur Housman as Obtrusive Gentleman
Eddie Boland as Obliging Gentleman

Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production at the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 and sixty years later was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for films that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."