Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Terje Vigen

Terje Vigen. Skådespel i fyra akter
Terje Vigen

SE 1916. PC: Svenska Biografteatern. P: Charles Magnusson. D: Victor Sjöström. SC: Gustaf Molander, Sjöström – based on the poem by Henrik Ibsen (1852). DP: Julius Jaenzon. AD: Axel Esbensen, Jens Wang. COST: A. Bloch.
M for the cinema: Rudolf Sahlberg. CAST: Viktor Sjöström (Terje Vigen), Bergliot Husberg (his wife), August Falck (the Lord), Edith Erastoff (the Lady). Originally 1129 m. The new restored edition from Cinemateket / Svenska Filminstitutet (2005), 1031 m /17 fps/ 53 min * norske tekster * e-subtitles in Finnish by Saara Villa, operated by Lena Talvio * viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 10 Nov 2009

Revisited: Victor Sjöströms noble, magnificent film, the first masterpiece of the Golden Age of Swedish cinema, also a contender for Sjöström's best film. The grip is vigorous, more dynamic than in certain later films by Sjöström. - This Swedish film is in Norwegian. We screened this film for the first time in our cinema with Finnish subtitles. Henrik Ibsen's poem has never been translated into Finnish before, and now Saara Villa had created a poetry translation that enhanced the experience.

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