Pan (1922)

Directed by

Harald Schwenzen

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

Norway

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

15

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy woman and a soldier fall in love. The story was filmed in Norway and Algeria.

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What happens

Pan is a 1922 Norwegian film directed by Harald Schwenzen. It was the first of four film adaptations of the novel of the same name by 1920 Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, and one of the earliest Scandinavian adaptations of a Hamsun work (preceded only by a 1921 film of Growth of the Soil). It tells the story of a romance between a wealthy woman and a soldier, and was filmed in Nordland and in Algeria (standing in for the Indian locations in the novel). According to author Donald Dewey, Pan was popular with the Norwegian public, but when Hamsun himself was asked for his reaction, he commented only, "I don’t understand film and I am in bed with the flu," and hung up. Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune describes it as "A fine film and a real discovery". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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