Description |
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 49 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
Note |
Title from title frames. |
Event |
Originally produced by Kino Lorber Edu in 1915. |
Summary |
Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courteney Foote) is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of "Truth," only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is the pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes in which the Naked truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex and power. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Clergy -- Drama.
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Monks -- Drama.
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Murder -- Drama.
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Genre |
Silent films.
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Added Author |
Foote, Courteney, -1925, actor.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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Music No. |
1114643 Kanopy |
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