Intolerance [BLU_RAY]

Product description

Classic silent film that shows through several historical episodes the injustices caused by religious and social intolerance. Griffith's initial idea was to narrate the bloody strikes of 1912 in EE.UU. (a striker is accused of the death of his boss), but then he decided to film three more episodes: "The Fall of Babylon, "The Passion of the Christ" and "The Night of Saint Bartholomew" (a bloody episode of the fights between Huguenots and Catholics that took place in Paris in 1572). With an excessive budget and resources for the time - a single scene brought together 15,000 extras and 250 cars - it still continues today. surprising for its spectacularity.

Synopsis

After "The Birth of a Nation" DW Griffth shot the feature film "The Mother and the Law", a 'minor' film compared to the previous blockbuster. Griffth decided to expand the story with three others and that the whole would serve to offer a vision of the intolerant behavior of humanity and the serious consequences of betrayal throughout history. Taking the technique of parallel montage to its ultimate consequences, the four stories could be followed simultaneously linked by the figure of a mother rocking her child's cradle: the fall of Babylon, set in the year 539 BC. from JC; the martyrdom and death of Jesus Christ in Judea; the St. Bartholomew's Night Massacre in France in 1572, and the modern-day massacre set in 1914.

This great blockbuster, whose first unreleased production lasted 8 hours!, did not recover a cost estimated at 12 million dollars at the time. To recover part of the investment, the feature films "The Mother and the Law" and "The Fall of Babylon" were subsequently released, presenting both stories in a conventional sequential order. Both feature films are presented for the first time together with the original film, meticulously restored from a negative and two other 35mm prints. This restoration recovers the original tones of the premiere and the praised score by Carl Davis from 1989, who was also its director at the head of the Luxemburg Radio Symphony Orchestra.