Film Screening: La Roue (The Wheel)
Film Screening: La Roue (The Wheel)
From the director of Napoléon and J'accuse, in this silent film a railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash.
FREE
The Morgan Library and Museum
July 15, 2023 | 12:00 pm
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Film Details

Directed by Abel Gance
1293 (2008 Flicker Alley reconstruction with music and English intertitles)
273 minutes with an intermission

About the Film

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.

Location

The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY

About The Event

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. Free with museum admission.

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Film still from La Roue (The Wheel)