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Gösta Berlings saga
(Gosta Berling’s Saga)
Also known as The Atonement of Gosta Berling and The Saga of Gosta Berling in the USA : [The Story of Gosta Berling], [The Legend of Gosta Berling]
(1924) Sweden
B&W : Nine reels / 8700 feet
Directed by Mauritz Stiller
Cast: Lars Hanson [Gösta Berling], Gerda Lundeqvist, Hilda Forslund, Otto Elg-Lundberg, Sixten Malmerfeldt, Karin Swanström, Jenny Hasselqvist, Ellen Cederström, Mona Mårtenson, Torsten Hammeren, Greta Garbo, Sven Scholander, Svend Kornbaeck, Hugo Rönnblad, Knut Lambert, Oscar Bergström, Gaston Portefaix Albert Stahl, Anton de Verdier, Axel Jacobsson, Jan de Meyere, Edmund Hohendorf, A.T.H. Buch
Aktiebolaget Svensk Filmindustri production; distributed by [?] Aktiebolaget Svensk Filmindustri? / Scenario by Mauritz Stiller and Ragmar Hyltén-Cavallius, from the novel Kavaljererna pä Ekeby by Selma Lagerlöf. Art direction by Ragnar Bratten. Set design by Vilhelm Bryde. Costume design by Ingrid Günther. Cinematography by J. Julius (Julius Jaenzon) and Carl Axel Söderström. / Premiered March 10 (part one) and March 17 (part two), 1924 in Stockholm, Sweden. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Originally over three hours and shown in two parts over two nights. Cut by Stiller in September 1924 into one complete film for its Berlin premiere. Later cut in early sound era by Hyltén-Cavallius from 4554 metres to 2775 metres and adding synchronized music on wax discs. The film was originally restored by Julius Jaenzon in 1955. The film was again restored to nearly four hours in the 1970s by the Swedish Film Institute.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Animals: Wolves - Pensioners - Sleighs
Listing updated: 8 December 2009.
References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 178b, 180, 181-183; Bohn-Light pp. xxiii, 168; Brownlow-Parade p. 404; Cowie-Swedish-2 pp. 20, 21, 149; Everson-American pp. 188, 298, 321; Fell-History pp. 125, 130; Higashi-Virgins p. 77; Lahue-Collecting p. 31; Leish-Cinema p. 35; Limbacher-Feature pp. 211, 235; Maltin-Classic p. 31; McIlroy-Sweden pp. 6, 16-17, 23, 31, 32, 166; O’Leary-Silent p. ?; Shipman-Cinema p. 85; Sinyard-Silent pp. 83, 157; Vermilye-Twenties p. 144; Walker-Garbo pp. 22, 24-26, 27, 28, 68, 137, 183.
Home video: DVD.
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