Eternal Love (1929 film)

Eternal Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed byErnst Lubitsch
Written by
Screenplay byHans Kraly
Based onDer König der Bernina
by Jakob Christoph Heer
Produced byJoseph Schenck
John Considine W. Jr.
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byAndrew Marton
Music byHugo Riesenfeld
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 11, 1929 (1929-05-11) (USA)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSound (Synchronized)
English Intertitles
Budget$1.1 million[1]

Eternal Love is a 1929 American sound romantic drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring John Barrymore and Camilla Horn.[2] While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Based on the novel Der Koenig der Bernina by Jakob Christoph Heer, the film is about two lovers living in the Swiss Alps who struggle to be together and escape their loveless marriages. Eternal Love was the last silent film for both Lubitsch and Barrymore.[3][4]

The story was remade as a 1957 Austrian film The King of Bernina.

  1. ^ "Another million film". Variety. November 14, 1928. p. 4.
  2. ^ "Eternal Love". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  3. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30. The American Film Institute, 1971.
  4. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Eternal Love