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Broken Blossoms

Directed by D. W. Griffith · 1919 · 88 min · Silent / Archive

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Then: Broken Blossoms

Cheng Huan leaves his native China because he "dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands." His idealism fades as he is faced with the brutal reality of London's gritty inner-city. However, his mission is finally realized in his devotion to the "broken blossom" Lucy Burrows, the beautiful but unwanted and abused daughter of boxer...

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