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The Wedding March

1928113 minUnited States
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In Vienna before the First World War, an aristocratic cavalry officer falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter. His family's financial troubles make a marriage to a wealthy industrialist's daughter increasingly attractive. The lovers' hopes collide with class expectations, family bargaining and the jealousy of the woman's violent fiancé.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
116:53
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Paramount Pictures · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsErich von Stroheim

Behind the scenes

Erich von Stroheim's expansive production was divided into The Wedding March and a second film, The Honeymoon. The surviving first film uses synchronized music and effects without spoken dialogue; The Honeymoon is now considered lost.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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