The Salvation Hunters

The Salvation Hunters 1925 is an American silent film, the first work directed by young Josef Sternberg, later known as Josef von Sternberg.

There are important fragments of life that have been avoided by the motion picture because Thought is concerned and not the Body. A thought can create and destroy nationsand it is all the more powerful because it is born of suffering, lives in silence, and dies when it has done its work. Our aim has been to photograph a thoughtA thought that guides humans who crawl close to the earthwhose lives are simplewho begin nowhere and end nowhere.The humans who crawl close to the earth are introduced one after another. The Boy is a homeless, unemployed youth who fancies The Girl. He is a failure, the intertitles explain, because he believes in failure. According to The Boy, there are two types of people in the worldthe poor, helpless children of the mud and the rich, successful children of the sun note drawn from a 1905 play by the same name by Russian playwright Maxim Gorkyand he places himself somewhere in the middle. The Boy and The Girl live near a harbor and struggle to find food eventually, they have to leave for the city not only The Boy is unable to find a job, but also The Brute has been harassing The Girl, and The Boy is afraid of a direct confrontation. They leave, taking with them The Child, an orphan who lost his parents to an accident and was also a victim of The Brute. ........

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