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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1020

Fairy of Solbakken

191996 minSweden

Synopsis

Thorbjörn and Synnöve's youthful love is obstructed when a rival convinces her parents that he is a bully. Years of separation follow, during which she refuses other suitors. A violent injury eventually forces the family to reconsider the judgment that has kept the couple apart.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 95:31
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · John W. Brunius · Public domain

Cast

Karin Molander

Lars Hanson

Egil Eide

DirectorsJohn W. Brunius

Inspirations

The Swedish production adapts Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's Norwegian novel Synnøve Solbakken. Its rural romance links Scandinavian silent cinema with the region's nineteenth-century literary traditions.

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Lars Hanson — Ferdinand Flodin (1863−1935); vykort.gotdns.org · Public domain

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