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40 Skipper Street (1925)

40 Skipper Street poster
Original title
Skeppargatan 40
Directed by
Gustaf Edgren
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent drama is set in Stockholm and follows a story from a play. It involves characters living on Skipper Street and the events that unfold there.

old-fashionedsubduedstraightforwarddatedmelodramaticslow-pacedtheatrical

What happens

40 Skipper Street (Swedish: Skeppargatan 40) is a 1925 Swedish silent drama film directed by Gustaf Edgren and starring Einar Hanson, Mona Mårtenson and Magda Holm. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. The film is based on Algot Sandberg's play Skeppargatan 40, which was first performed in 1909 and published as a novel in 1913. The film is presumed to be lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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