A Man There Was (1917)

Original title

Terje Vigen

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

59 min

Rated

16

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man endures a long imprisonment after a wartime incident. When he is released he seeks revenge against those he blames for his suffering.

melancholicstoicbleakvisually starkslow-burnintrospectiveemotional

What happens

A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 silent Swedish drama co-written and directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen. With a budget of SEK 60,000, it was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in better overall quality. This film is considered to be the start of the golden age of Swedish silent film that would end after Gösta Berlings Saga in 1925, although films such as Ingeborg Holm (1913) are often assigned to this era as well. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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