A Man There Was

A Man There Was 1917

7.02

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

1917

Ingeborg Holm

Ingeborg Holm 1913

6.70

After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.

1913

Sir Arne's Treasure

Sir Arne's Treasure 1919

7.10

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

1919

The Outlaw and His Wife

The Outlaw and His Wife 1918

7.20

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.

1918

Song of the Scarlet Flower

Song of the Scarlet Flower 1919

5.70

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

1919

Sons of Ingmar

Sons of Ingmar 1919

6.60

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

1919

Johan

Johan 1921

6.00

On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.

1921

The Downy Girl

The Downy Girl 1919

5.70

The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his uncle to his father-in-law.

1919

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great 1917

5.00

In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.

1917

The Wings

The Wings 1916

5.20

The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.

1916

The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman 1913

1

Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

1913

The Monastery of Sendomir

The Monastery of Sendomir 1920

6.30

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

1920

Thomas Graal's Best Film

Thomas Graal's Best Film 1917

5.90

Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.

1917

The Sea Vultures

The Sea Vultures 1916

6.10

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.

1916

The Gardener

The Gardener 1912

5.70

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his progeny off the property and begins to act despicably toward his son's wife.

1912

The Magic Brew

The Magic Brew 1915

5.40

Short animated silent film about a man drinking alcohol.

1915

Gunnar Hede's Saga

Gunnar Hede's Saga 1923

6.50

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 and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.

1923

Kolingens galoscher

Kolingens galoscher 1912

1

A man buys a pair of galoshes at an auction and discovers they are magic, and can take the wearer wherever he wishes. He travels with a friend on an adventurous trip around the world.

1912

Thomas Graal's Best Child

Thomas Graal's Best Child 1918

5.40

Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.

1918