The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)

Original title

Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru

Directed by

Victor Sjöström

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

2h 16m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 66 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An 18th-century Icelandic man becomes an outlaw and flees into the wilderness with his wife. They struggle to survive in the harsh landscape while authorities hunt them.

slow-burnmelancholicvisually lushbleakromanticnaturalisticbroodingtragic

What happens

The Outlaw and His Wife (Swedish: Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) is a 1918 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a play from 1911 by Jóhann Sigurjónsson. It tells the story of Eyvind of the Hills, an 18th-century Icelandic outlaw. The film was groundbreaking for its portrayal of wild nature. It was shot in two sessions in the spring and late summer 1917, with Åre and Abisko in northern Sweden acting as the highlands of Iceland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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