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Historical romance

Tempest

Year
1928
Length
105 minAFI 105-minute release record Version sources ↓

A peasant officer’s love for a princess collides with military hierarchy, imprisonment, and the Russian Revolution.

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Language
English
RomanticTense Great first watch · Easy Historical romance
A close-up of frayed dark fabric, a brass button and a strip of white lining.

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What to expect

The production joins romantic intensity to large historical sets and expressive visual design. Its lovers are repeatedly framed against institutions that make private feeling a political offence.

How to ease in

Keep Ivan and Tamara in view while uniforms and regimes change around them. The revolution enlarges a class barrier the romance establishes early.

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A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes imprisonment, torture, revolutionary violence, sexual coercion, class prejudice, and death.
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The film keeps giving the lovers enormous rooms and almost no safe space. I watch intimacy survive by becoming smaller and more private as history grows louder.

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AFI 105-minute release record 105 min 105 minutes is attached only to the named AFI 105-minute release record. No unsupported cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration detail is inferred. Source: American Film Institute — Tempest Runtime reference · Checked 2026-08-22

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