Judith of Bethulia
MovieTitle | Judith of Bethulia |
User score | 6.3 |
Release date | Mar 8, 1914 |
Genre | Drama, History, War |
Director | D.W. Griffith |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | American Mutoscope & Biograph |
Run time | 72 min. |
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the war as her people suffer in starvation, nearly ready to surrender.