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The Blizzard

Original title: Gunnar Hedes saga
  • 19231923
  • 1h 41m
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7.0/10
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Einar Hanson and Mary Johnson in The Blizzard (1923)
Drama
Gunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selli... Read allGunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selling reindeer. He doesn't like the business and isn't suited for it, but he gives in and tak... Read allGunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business, raising and selling reindeer. He doesn't like the business and isn't suited for it, but he gives in and takes over. However, when he is badly injured one day in an accident while driving the herd o... Read all
IMDb RATING
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190
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    • Mauritz Stiller
    • Selma Lagerlöf(novel "En herrgardssaegen")
    • Mauritz Stiller
  • Stars
    • Gustav Aronson
    • Stina Berg
    • Hugo Björne
    • Mauritz Stiller
    • Selma Lagerlöf(novel "En herrgardssaegen")
    • Mauritz Stiller
  • Stars
    • Gustav Aronson
    • Stina Berg
    • Hugo Björne
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    • 6User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Gustav Aronson
    • Bailiff
    Stina Berg
    Stina Berg
    • Mrs. Blomgren
    Hugo Björne
    Hugo Björne
    • Mr. Hede
    Pauline Brunius
    Pauline Brunius
    • Mrs. Hede
    Julia Cederblad
    Julia Cederblad
    • Auktionsspekulant
    Einar Hanson
    Einar Hanson
    • Gunnar Hede
    Gösta Hillberg
    • Lawyer
    Mary Johnson
    Mary Johnson
    • Ingrid
    Adolf Olschansky
    • Blomgren
    Lotten Olsson
    • Auktionsspekulant
    Concordia Selander
    Ingeborg Strandin
    • Tjänstekvinna på munkhyttan
    Thecla Åhlander
    Thecla Åhlander
    • Stava
    Albert Christiansen
    • Gunnar Hede as child
    • (uncredited)
      • Mauritz Stiller
      • Selma Lagerlöf(novel "En herrgardssaegen")
      • Mauritz Stiller
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    • Trivia
      Only an incomplete print of this film exists.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
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    9/10
    Cinematic poetry at its most exquisite and sensitive
    This is Nobel prize winner Selma Lagerlof's most poetic work although in prose, but the story beams poetic beauty all through, like an advanced development of an H. C. Andersen tale, for Lagerlof was an expert on making tales into novels, (like "Nils Holgersson"). Mauritz Stiller has handled her novel with great piety and care, actually succeeding in transmitting the poetry to the screen, especially accentuated by all the scenes with the poor orphan girl playing the violin. Unfortunately you cannot hear what she played, and the music later attached to the film was not always in congruence with the sensitive poetic character of the story. The cinematography as so often in Stiller's films is very impressive, the major alteration he has made from the novel is to turn the goats into reindeers, which he used for the greatest sequences of the film: the struggle in the snow storm with the reindeer chaos is simply cinematographically sensational. The acting is not exceptional but very in accordance with the novel, and on the large he has succeeded in squeezing a literary masterpiece into almost an equally ranking movie masterpiece. Later he would turn Mrs Lagerlof's first novel "Gosta Berling" into a great film, using the same kind of advanced and effective dramaturgy to fit the novel into a film, which Mrs Lagerlof had some objections against - she did not recognize her novel any more. The film is different from the novel but equally great but in another way. He later brought Greta Garbo to Hollywood.
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    • Release date
      • January 1, 1923 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
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    • Filming locations
      • Kall, Jämtlands län, Sweden
    • Production company
      • Svenska Biografteatern AB
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Silent

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