Weather lights (1928)

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Movie
German title Weather lights
Original title Tempest
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1928
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Sam Taylor
Lewis Milestone
Viktor Tourjansky
script C. Gardner Sullivan
Lewis Milestone
Erich von Stroheim
George Marion Jr. ( subtitles ) based
on a story by Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko
production John W. Considine Jr.
Joseph M. Schenck
for Joseph M. Schenck Productions
music Hugo Riesenfeld
camera Charles Rosher
cut Allen McNeil
occupation

Weather Light (OT: Tempest ) is a romantic film drama by Sam Taylor , Lewis Milestone and Viktor Tourjansky from 1928 based on a story by Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko . John Barrymore , Camilla Horn and Louis Wolheim play the leading roles.

action

In the last days of the Russian Empire , a small farmer rose to lieutenant . The other officers , all of them aristocrats , grudge him and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess who, however, despises him. When caught in her room, he is demoted and thrown in jail. With the beginning of the October Revolution that followed, the tide turned in his favor.

Awards

Art Director William Cameron Menzies received an Oscar for the setting as well as for “Best Production Design” in The Dove at the first Academy Awards in 1929 .

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