Saturday, July 15, 2023, 12 PM
Director Abel Gance, 1923 (2008 Flicker Alley reconstruction with music and English intertitles), 273 minutes, with an intermission
From the director of Napoléon and J'accuse, in this silent film a railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage. The exhibition Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything will be open before the screening.
Tickets:
Free with museum admission
Advance reservations for Morgan Members only. Tickets are available at the Tickets Desk on the day of the screening.
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