Hearts of the World

original title:
Hearts of the World
other titles:
Love's Struggle
country / year of production:
USA / 1918
original length:
117 min. , black/white
premiere:
genre:
Silent movie
based on:
director:
David (Lewelyn) Wark Griffith
film script:
David (Lewelyn) Wark Griffith
producer:
David (Lewelyn) Wark Griffith
cinematographer:
G.W. Bitzer , Alfred Machin , Hendrik Sartov
editor:
Rose Smith , James Smith
composer:
cast (role):
Lillian Gish (The Girl, Marie Stephenson) , Robert Harron (Douglas Gordon Hamilton) , George Fawcett (The Village Carpenter) , Erich Stroheim, von (A German Soldier) , Noël Coward (Boy with Wheelbarrow) , Lillian Gish , Robert Harron , George Fawcett , Erich Stroheim, von , Noël Coward
more:
Lillian Gish , Robert Harron , George Fawcett , Erich Stroheim, von , Noël Coward
plot synopsis:
Two young Americans, a man and a woman, live in France when war erupts. The man decides to fight for France. The village in which the two lovers have resided becomes the target of fighting, boming and a list of atrocities by the brutal Germans.
keywords:
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Russell Merritt. "D.W. Griffith direct the Great War. The Making of `Hearts of the World´. In: Quaterly Review of Film Studies 6 (1981), 45-65.

B.O. Murdoch. Fighting Songs and Warring Words. Popular lyric of two World Wars. London: Routledge, 1990.
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