Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is not only Murnau's greatest film, I also believe that it has to be counted among the most significant films of the cinema's first hundred years. It is an emotional and artistic tour de force, a blend of pathos and studio realism illustrated by a camera that knows no bounds.

Its story is simple; its images and movement are breathtaking. Like many of Murnau's films I can find no better way to describe it than dream-like. Although this dream has narrative order and narrative sense, it moves from scene to scene like a dream, like a silent walk through a pile of leaves, like a fog that ushers in the day but tickles you by withholding it.