Swedish Silent Film, director George af Klercker
Anne-Kristin Wallengren, for Nordic Academic Press, only indirectly refers to the work of Gosta Werner and the restoration of lost silent film in the article, Welecome Home Mr. Swanson-Swedish...
View ArticleEarly Scandinavian SIlent Film,: FIlmed Theater and the Cinema of Attractions
William Rothman writes that only one sixth of the silent film shot before 1907 had storyline. This can apparently refer to Sweden as well. Scholar Sandra Walker, University of Zurich writes, "At the...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Thomas Graal’s Basta Barn (Mauritz Still..
Peter Cowie, in his volume Scandinavian Cinema, writes, "The domestic relationships and erotic byplay in Stiller's comedies posses an application and validity beyond their immediate setting- and...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Bjrnetaemmern (Bear Tamer of the Fl...
During 1912, Lilli Beck appeared in the sequel to the film "The Flying Circus" (Lind, 1912), again appearing on the screen as a snake charmer under the direction of Alfred Lind in "The Bear Tamer of...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Karin Ingmarsdotter (Victor Sjöström, ...
While writing about the film "Wild Strawberries", Jorn Donner notes that Ingmar Bergman's film is in part a tribute to Victor Sjostrom the director. "Many scenes have a tie-in with Victor Sjostrom's...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: The Gardner (Tradgardsmastanen, Vic...
Banned in Sweden during 1912, "The Gardner", written by Mauritz Stiller and directed by Victor Sjostrom was thought to be lost untill a surviving copy was found sixty eight years later in the Library...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Sangen om den eldroda blomman (Mauritz S...
"The Song of the Scarlet Flower" (Sangen och elroda blomman, 1919) was to star Lars Hanson, Greta Almroth, Lilebel Ibsen and Edith Erastoff. The film was directed by Mauritz Stiller with a photoplay...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Thomas Graal's Best Film (Mauritz Stille...
Bengt Forslund, in his article "Through a Glass Darkly, the silent era of Swedish Film", reminds us that Victor Sjostrom and Mauritz Stiller"made farces, comedies and melodramas, as well as medieval...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Vem Dömer (Who Should Judge?, Victor...
In Sweden, during 1922, Victor Sjostrom directed Jenny Hasselqvist in “Love’s Crucible”, co-scripted by Hjalmer Bergman and photographed by Julius Jaenzon. Nils Asther and Gosta Emmanuel appear on...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Revelj (George af Klercker, 1917)
Directed by George af Klerker in 1917, the film "Revelj" starred actresses Mary Johnson, Lily Croswin and both Gertie Lowestrom and Gerda Bjorne in the first film in which either were to appear...
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Scott Lord Swedish Silent Film: The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen,Victor...
With the subtitles Sweden Strikes a Lyrical Note, Garbo is Lost and Found, and Sweden Studio is Re-Born, in 1947 author Leslie Wood, in her book Miracle of the Movies, note the contribution of Victor...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Hans nåds testamente (Victor Sjostrom, ...
During 1919, Victor Sjostrom directed the film “His Lord’s Will” (“His Grace’s Will” “Hans nads testamente”) from the writings of Hjalmer Bergman. Photographed by Henrik Jaenzon, it starred actresses...
View ArticleScott Lord Silent Film: (The Hell Ship 1923, Victor Sjostrom)
"The Hellship" (Eld Omboard), directed by Victor Sjostrom and co-scripted by Victor Sjostrom and Hjalmer Bergman, starred actresses Jenny Hasselqvist, Julia Cederblad and Wanda Rothgardt. Victor...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Triumph of the Heart (Hjärtats triumf, Gustaf...
Fan magazines from the United States have occaisionally reported that Rasunda Studios in Stockholm had recieved a vistor during 1929. There is an account that Greta Garbo, by then a star of the...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Film: Lars Hanson in A Dangerous Proposal (Ett Farlit...
The first film directed by Rune Carlsten, an adaptation of a story by Bjornestejerne Bjornson which Carlsten coscripted with Sam Ask, was for Filmindustri Skandia, a short lived merger which shortly...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Synnöve Solbakken (Brunius, 1919)
The first adaptation based on the novel by Bjornstjerne Bjornsons, the film was co-scripted by John Brunius and Sam Ask, John W. Brunius having directed the film. It starred Karin Molander and Lars...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Forstadprasten (Suburban Priest, George ...
During 1917, Swedish Silent Film director George af Klerker directed actress Mary Johnson in the film "The Suburban Vicar" ("Forstudprasten"), in which she starred with Corcordia Selander and Lilly...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: In the Fetters of Darkness (Morket I Boj...
Directed by George af Klercker for Hasselblad during 1917, "I Morkets Borje" was phtotgraphed by Swedish cinematographer Carl Gustav Florin and starred Sybil Smolawa. That year George af Klercker also...
View ArticleScott Lord Scandinavian Silent Film: Dodsritten under Circuskupolen (Geo...
"The Last Performance" (The Death Knell under the Circus Dome", directed by George af Klercker in 1912 was thought to be a lost film, with no surviving copies untill researcher Gosta Werner discovered...
View ArticleScott Lord Swedish Silent Film: Gyurkoricsarna (John Brunius, 1920)
Suprisingly, the screenplay of "Lieutenant Tophat" (Gyurkoriscarna) is credited to Pauline Brunius and Gosta Ekman, who star in the film with Gucken Cederberg and Jessie Wessel. Directed byJohn Brunius...
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