INTOLERANCE (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray)

INTOLERANCE (Masters of Cinema)NormalGenre: DramaLabel: EurekaDescription: After shaking the world with his hugely controversial epic The Birth of a Nation pioneer filmmaker D. W. Griffith spared no expense in putting together his next project Intolerance (Love s struggle throughout the ages): a powerful examination of intolerance as it has persisted throughout civilisation set across four parallel storylines that span 2500 years. There is the Babylonian story depicting nothing less than the fall of Babylon; the Judean story which revolves around the crucifixion of Christ; the French story which presents the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in all its horror; and a modern American story of class struggle crime and the plight of life in the early 20th century set within urban slums and the prison system. Starring such luminaries as Lillian Gish Constance Talmadge and Miriam Cooper who share screentime with an enormous main cast and some 3000 extras Griffith's film the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time went on to become a critical success whose influence has only grown in the decades since.