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The Sea Vultures

1916 · 44 min Drama Crime
6.1 / 10 · TMDB

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title Havsgamar
Year 1916
Country Sweden
Genre Drama, Crime
Director Victor Sjöström
Runtime 44 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.1/10 (6 votes)

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The director constructs the narrative on the contrast between two time periods, using the seascape as a metaphor for hidden danger and uneasy conscience. It relies on a classic melodramatic structure to explore how the sins of the fathers burden their children, building tension through silent, yet expressive glances and gestures.

What lingers after the viewing is a sense of melancholic poetry and thoughts on the inexorability of fate, where love is tested by the unveiling of a dark secret. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Victor Sjöström

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