The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet) is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Edgren and starring Margareta Fahlén, Alf Kjellin and Sten Lindgren.[1][2] It is based on the 1908 novella of the same name by Nobel Prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall.
Tösen från Stormyrtorpet | |
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Directed by | Gustaf Edgren |
Screenplay by | Oscar Rydqvist Gustaf Edgren |
Based on | The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf |
Produced by | Inge Ivarson |
Starring | Margareta Fahlén Alf Kjellin Sten Lindgren |
Cinematography | Martin Bodin |
Edited by | Tage Holmberg |
Music by | Bengt Wallerström |
Production company | Kungsfilm |
Distributed by | Fribergs Filmbyrå |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Cast
edit- Margareta Fahlén as Helga
- Alf Kjellin as Gudmund Erlandsson
- Sten Lindgren as Eriksson
- Ingrid Borthen as Hildur
- Keve Hjelm as Johan
- Oscar Ljung as Per Martinsson
- Carl Ström as Erland Erlandsson
- Anna Carlsten as Ingeborg Erlandsson
- Sven d'Ailly as Karl Nilsson
- Inez Lundmark-Hermelin as Helga's Mother
- Gösta Cederlund as Frithiof Pettersson
- Erik Berglund as Svensson
- Artur Rolén as Guest at the party
- Sven Bergvall as Martinsson, Per's father
- Gull Natorp as Fortuneteller
- Ivar Kåge as Priest
- Artur Cederborgh as Parish constable
- Wiktor Andersson as Cryer
- Greta Berthels as Stina, maid at Närlunda
- Gösta Bodin as Major at mayor's ball
References
edit- ^ Wright, Rochelle (1998). The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809321643.
- ^ Vonderau, Patrick (2007). Bilder vom Norden: schwedisch-deutsche Filmbeziehungen, 1914-1939 (in German). Schüren. ISBN 9783894724894.
- ^ Vinge, Louise (1998). Selma Lagerlöf seen from abroad (in Swedish). Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. ISBN 9789174022896.
Bibliography
edit- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
edit- The Girl from the Marsh Croft at IMDb
- http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=4189