Film

Since You Went Away 1944

Directed by John Cromwell

  • Drama
  • 177 min
  • NR

A love story of today's love and laughter

In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind his wife and two teen daughters.

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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and spare.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • earnestironic
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • sparerichly built
  • intimateepic

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