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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlof (20 November 1858–16 March 1940) was a famous Swedish novelist. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. more

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The Phantom Carriage
(1921)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Victor Sjöström
Cast:
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander
8.1
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Jerusalem
(1996)
Drama
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Runtime:
168 min
7.0
80%
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
(1962)
Adventure, Animation, Family
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.
Runtime:
95 min
6.9
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The Enchanted Boy
(1955)
Animation, Fantasy
An animated adaptation of the classic story of Nils Holgerson, a naughty boy who is transformed to a very little dwarf and goes through many adventures, flying with a band of wild geese.
Runtime:
44 min
8.1
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Kejsarn av Portugallien
(1991)
Drama
TV Mini-Series
Runtime:
173 min
7.2
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Gunnar Hede's Saga
(1923)
Drama, Family
Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers ...
Runtime:
71 min
Director:
Mauritz Stiller
Cast:
Gustav Aronson, Hugo Björne, Pauline Brunius, Einar Hanson, Stina Berg
7.0
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
(1917)
Drama
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had fo...
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Victor Sjöström
Cast:
Greta Almroth, Nils Aréhn, Josua Bengtson, Georg Blomstedt, Thekla Borgh
6.9
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
(1935)
Drama
In this Swedish romance, a strapping farm boy is betrothed to a pretty socialite. Unfortunately, he really loves a simple girl from the marsh. His engagement to the wealthy lass is broken after he gets into a barroom brawl. He is then able to marry the woman he really loves.
Runtime:
82 min
Director:
Douglas Sirk
Cast:
Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, Friedrich Kayssler, Theodor Loos, Kurt Fischer-Fehling
6.9
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
(1920)
Drama
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Victor Sjöström
6.9
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Sons of Ingmar
(1919)
Drama
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Runtime:
207 min
Director:
Victor Sjöström
7.1
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Aysel, the Daughter of the Swampy House
(1934)
Drama
Aysel, while working for the strong Satilmiszade family, is seduced by her boss and becomes pregnant. Giving birth to the child, she applies to the court for alimony, but the father rejects the child. Ali, from another village is concerned with her situation, and he offers her a job: to accompany his disabled mother.
Runtime:
80 min
Director:
Muhsin Ertugrul
Cast:
Behzat Butak, I. Galip Arcan, Hazım Körmükçü, Mahmut Morali, Talat Artemel
6.9
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The Tower of Lies
(1925)
Drama
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Runtime:
70 min
Director:
Victor Sjöström
Cast:
Norma Shearer, Lon Chaney, Ian Keith, Claire McDowell, William Haines
7.6
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Husmandstøsen
(1952)
Drama, Family
Helga is on a farm, where she is seduced by her husband, Per Mortensen. As it turns out she is with child, she gets a tough time among local residents. They consider it the greatest shame that can befall a young, unmarried girl. Per refuses bargain to be the father of the child. Her parents can not afford to keep the baby, so she tries...
Director:
Alice O'Fredericks
Cast:
Grethe Thordahl, Ib Schønberg, Maria Garland, Jakob Nielsen, Johannes Meyer
6.8
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Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
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Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
(1958)
Drama
Director:
Gustav Ucicky
Cast:
Maria Emo, Wolfgang Lukschy, Claus Holm, Horst Frank, Eva Ingeborg Scholz
6.3
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Der Wechselbalg
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Der Wechselbalg
(2011)
Animation
Animated short based on the fairy tale by Selma Lagerlöf.
Runtime:
9 min
Director:
Maria Steinmetz
6.0
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Charlotte Löwensköld
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Charlotte Löwensköld
(1979)
Drama
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
Runtime:
124 min
6.3
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