Known under a variety of titles, The Atonement of Gosta Berling is an excellent representation of the Swedish silent cinema. Long, complex, and elaborately produced, the film nonetheless never loses sight of the human elements which motivate the story. Lars Hanson stars as Berling, a defrocked priest whose rebellious attitude hides a greater sense ...
In this Swedish film, Clary (Karin Carlsson) the beautiful wife of successful businessman Johan Borg (Lars Hanson), makes the unhappy discovery that she is pregnant. Unwilling to suffer through the emotional and physical effects of bearing a child, Clary opts to keep the information from her husband and have a secret abortion. However, when ...
The Wind, Victor Sjostrom's final American film, is a western only in its locale: its symbolism-laden story of physical and spiritual repression, culminating in a violent, hysterical outburst, has more in common with the European or Scandanavian cinema than with the usual MGM product. Lillian Gish plays a sheltered Virginia girl who heads to Texas ...
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