Synnöve Solbakken
Egil Eide as Sæmund and Lars Hanson as Thorbjörn
Directed byJohn W. Brunius
Written byJohn W. Brunius, Sam Ask
Based onSynnøve Solbakken
by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Starring
CinematographyHugo Edlund, Arthur Thorell
Production
company
Filmindustri AB Skandia
Release dates
  • 20 October 1919 (1919-10-20) (Kinoen Metropol, Helsingborg, Sweden)
CountrySweden

Synnöve Solbakken is a Swedish silent film from 1919 directed by John W. Brunius.[1][2] The screenplay was written by Brunius and Sam Ask. It is based on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's 1857 novel Synnøve Solbakken. The novel was adapted for film two additional times in Sweden (in 1934 and 1957).[3]

Filming

The film was shot in the summer of 1919 at the Skandiaateljén studio in the Långängen neighborhood of Stocksund, Sweden and in Sel in Norway's Gudbrand Valley.[3]

Plot

Thorbjörn and Synnöve fall in love with each other as children. He is rumored to be a fighter, and her parents consider him unfit for her. They do not meet for several years, and in the meantime Synnöve rejects many suitors. After Thorbjörn is stabbed with a knife, Synnöve's parents realize that he is not so violent after all, and they accept his proposal.

Cast

  • Karin Molander: Synnöve Solbakken
  • Lars Hanson: Thorbjörn Granliden
  • Egil Eide: Sæmund Granlien, Thorbjörn's father
  • Hjalmar Peters: Guttorm Solbakken, Synnöve's father
  • Svea Peters: Ingebjörg Granlien, Thorbjörn's mother
  • Ingrid Sandahl: Karen Solbakken, Synnöve's mother
  • Einar Rød: Aslak, a farmhand at the Granliden farm
  • Ellen Dall: Ingrid Granlien, Thorbjörn's sister

References

  1. ↑ Hjort, Mette; Lindqvist, Ursula (2016). A Companion to Nordic Cinema. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 290.
  2. ↑ Segerberg, Ebba Filippa (1999). Nostalgia, Narrative, and Modernity in Swedish Silent Cinema (Dissertation). Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. p. 8.
  3. 1 2 "Synnøve Solbakken (1919)". Svensk filmfatabas. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
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