
Mici is the middle of seven sisters who all believe if a younger sister marries first, the older sisters are all doomed to be old maids. The older sisters conspire to have the younger, pretty Mici sent away to a convent school.

Ferenc Herczeg, Edith Ellis Furness
United States

Austro-Hungarian folklore collides with Jazz-Age irreverence in The Seven Sisters, a 1920 silent whirlwind that treats courtship like a leveraged buyout. Picture, if you can, a candle-drenched hallway where shadows yawn wider than any mouth; the camera glides past six fretful brunettes and lands on Mici—porcelain ski...

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" Austro-Hungarian folklore collides with Jazz-Age irreverence in The Seven Sisters, a 1920 silent whirlwind that treats courtship like a leveraged buyout. Picture, if you can, a candle-drenched hallway where shadows yawn wider than any mouth; the camera glides past six fretful brunettes and lands on Mici—porcelain skin, eyes fermenting with schemes—who embodies both threat and promise to the clan’s marital orthodoxy. The film’s very first intertitle jolts us with a proverb inked in medieval dre..."


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