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This is a fantastic box containing six important films from the Swedish golden age (1917 – 1924).
This was a period when the artistic quality of Swedish film was without equal in the world. |
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All the films have been mastered from 35 mm copies, restored by the Swedish Film Institute. All six films have specially created music by Matti Bye, Sweden’s foremost silent film musician.
The box contains a wealth of bonus material; unique short films, behind the scenes photographs, interviews and fragments of lost films.
Each film also comes with a booklet with complete production data, texts about the films and directors as well as information about the restoration process.
All the films have English subtitles and some have subtitles in other languages as well (see below).
The digital transfers were performed by Statens ljud- och bildarkiv in Stockholm.
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The 6 DVDs |
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Terje Vigen 1917
Victor Sjöström’s Terje Vigen is a film version of a poem by the Norwwegian Nobel prize laureate Henrik Ibsen.
It tells about the English fleet’s siege outside Norways coast during the Napoleonic wars in the beginning of the 19th century.
Terje, played by Sjöström himself, is a fisherman who breaks the siege to get food for his family.
Sjöström’s classic Terje Vigen marks the start of the period of the silent era that is called the Swedish golden age.
In dramatic pictures, where man and nature collaborate, the film describes an aging mans efforts to come to terms with fate and overcome his feelings of bitterness and hatred.
Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Italian |
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Sir Arne’s treasure (Herr Arnes pengar) 1919
Mauritz Stiller’s Sir Arne’s treasure is one of the peaks during the so called “golden age”, when Swedish film was admired by audiences, critics and filmmakers all over the world.
The film is based on a story by Selma Lagerlöf and is a drama about greed, death and ghosts, taking place on the Swedish west coast during the 16th century.
It begins when three Scottish mercenaries escapes from the prison where they are locked up after a failed plot to assassinate the Swedish king.
Among the most memorable scenes in Stiller’s magnificent film version are the fire at Solberga parsonage and the funeral procession across the iced over sea at Marstrand.
Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Italian |
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Erotikon 1920
The bored wife of a professor flirts with a sculptor and flying baron in Mauritz Stiller’s classic comedy Erotikon, a film about amorous complications in Stockholm’s upper class circles.
The acting elite of the time, Tora Teje, Lars Hanson, Anders de Wahl and Karin Molander take part in this ironic masterpiece which created a genre and gave its director a world-wide reputation.
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
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The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), 1921Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage is the masterpiece of the Swedish silent era.
In the film, based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf, we follow David Holm who realises, as he sits drinking in the cemetery with his buddies, that the driver of the carriage of death has come to collect him.
In flashbacks we are taken to David’s earlier life and the suffering he has caused his family and friends.
The remarkable acting ( not least by Sjöström himself as the lead), the elaborate story telling technique and the advanced special effects (created by master cinematographer Julius Jaenzon) combine to make the film Sjöström’s absolute masterpiece.
It is still regarded as an international classic!
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese |
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Häxan 1922
When the Danish director Benjamin Christensen made Häxan in 1922 it was the most expensive, and original, Swedish film of the silent era. In remarkable pictures we are presented with devil worship and supersticion through out the ages, and in suggestive re-enactments we experience medieval sexual possession and the prosecution of witches.
The film also point at the similarities between posessions and contemporary nervous disorders.
This peculiar mixture of didactic lecture and spectacular re-enactments continues to fascinate to theis day.
Subtitles: English |
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The Story of Gösta Berling (Gösta Berlings saga), 1924
Lars Hanson plays the alcoholic priest Gösta Berling, who lives at an estate in Värmland together with the so called cavaliers of Ekeby, an odd assortement of noblemen and retired officers who live under the protection of the estate's owner , the feared majoress.
Despite lavish parties Gösta is plagued by unhappy memories. Mauritz Stiller’s film of Selma Lagerlöf’s novel contain many memorable sequences, among them the memorable chase over the ices when the main characters are chased by a pack of wolves.
The Story of Gösta Berling was also the film that turned Greta Garbo into a star.
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese |
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© Dec 2007 Josef Svalander
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