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The Outlaw and His Wife

Original title: Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru
  • 19181918
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 12m
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7.2/10
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The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
Drama
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.
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    • Victor Sjöström
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Sam Ask
    • Jóhann Sigurjónsson(play "Eyvind of the Hills")
  • Stars
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Edith Erastoff
    • John Ekman
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Sam Ask
    • Jóhann Sigurjónsson(play "Eyvind of the Hills")
  • Stars
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Edith Erastoff
    • John Ekman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 16User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Nils Aréhn, Edith Erastoff, and Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Nils Aréhn in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Edith Erastoff and Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Victor Sjöström in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
    Artur Rolén and Sigurd Wallén in The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)

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    Victor Sjöström
    Victor Sjöström
    • Outlaw…
    Edith Erastoff
    Edith Erastoff
    • Halla the Widow
    John Ekman
    John Ekman
    • Arnes the Immigrant Worker
    Nils Aréhn
    Nils Aréhn
    • Bailiff Björn Bergstéinsson, Halla's Brother-in-law
    Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
    Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
    • Gudfinna, Halla's Farm Worker
    William Larsson
    • Bjarni Sveinbjörnsson
    Artur Rolén
    Artur Rolén
    • Halla's Farm Worker
    Sigurd Wallén
    Sigurd Wallén
    • Halla's Farm Worker Who Denounces the Outlaw
    Emil Fjellström
    Emil Fjellström
    • Churchgoer
    Hildur Carlberg
    Hildur Carlberg
    • Churchgoer
    Edith Wallén
    • Halla's Farm Worker
    Harald Wehlnor
    • Halla's Farm Worker
    Thure Holm
    • Priest Robbed by the Outlaw
    Gucken Cederborg
    Gucken Cederborg
    • Halla's Farm Worker
    Nils Elffors
    • Björn Bergstéinsson's Farm Worker
    Olof Ås
    • Man with Bjrön Bergstéinsson
    Herman Lantz
    • Man with Bjrön Bergstéinsson
    Walerie Alexandrow-Höök
    • Halla's Daughter Tota
    • (as Walerie Alexandrow)
      • Victor Sjöström
      • Victor Sjöström
      • Sam Ask
      • Jóhann Sigurjónsson(play "Eyvind of the Hills")
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    • Trivia
      Based on the story of Eyvindur of the Mountains (1714-1783), an outlaw in Iceland who fled into the mountains with his wife around 1760 and remained there for twenty years.
    • Quotes

      Arnes: Have you ever seen such fine lichen? I have a whole bagful. It tastes delicious boiled in milk.

    • Alternate versions
      Turner Classic Movies has shown on TV a restored version copyrighted in 1968 by Svenska Filminstitutet (The Swedish Film Instute). The restoration credits are in Swedish, but some of the original cast and crew credits are in English. All intertitles are in English and the film runs 73 minutes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Victor Seastrom (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Kung Kristian II, op. 27
      Composed by Jean Sibelius (1898)

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    5/10
    The moral conflict of nature
    The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) directed by Victor Sjöström is yet another impressive production in early cinema history.

    The story revolves around a stranger who comes to work at a widow's (Halla's) farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.

    Victor Sjöström's early films are impressive in their own right. In The Outlaw and his Wife, he almost uses nature as a character, pressuring the humans of the film to the very brink of - and beyond - their moral values. This works effectively in driving a more abstract point of the film; what is one willing to do in order to ensure one's own safety and survival, and yet further abstract; what is good and evil as philosophical constructs?

    It is similarly highly recommended for film buffs and those interested in cinema history just like Sjöström's earlier film Terje Vigen (1917), although The Outlaw and his Wife is not as contemporary as Terje Vigen. Lacking a score and being twice as long, it does not feel as focused although it definitely is more epic in its scale and production.
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    • Oct 5, 2022

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    • Release date
      • March 12, 1921 (United States)
      • Sweden
      • Svenska Filminstitutet (El Salvador)
      • None
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    • Filming locations
      • Nuolja, Abisko, Sweden
    • Production company
      • Svenska Biografteatern AB
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    • 1 hour 12 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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