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UNITED STATES · 1910

In Life’s Cycle

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood childhood promises maternal loss memory and forgetting sibling divergence grave visitation
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Synopsis

A story about two children that are made to promise they will not forget their recently departed mother. As the two children grow up the boy regularly visits his mother's grave, while the girl has forgotten her promise.

Year1910
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
MovementClassical Hollywood
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