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TitleWheel of Fate (1922)
Alternative/Original TitleLa Roue
DisabilityBlind
CountryFrench
Length144
GenreDrama
Rating5
DirectorAbel Gance
Cast
NotesOriginally 8 hours long, cut to 144mins in 1924. Restored to 303mins in 1980. An elderly railway worker and his son are both in love with the same woman. She is the father's adopted daughter though the son doesn't know this. She marries another railway worker but unhappily. The father who is going blind loses his job but gets a job on a funicular railway in the Alps taking his son with him. The son meets again the daughter and her husband leading to tragedy. A seminal film of French cinema.

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