Movies: Selma Lagerlöf

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem....

The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving th...

Helga is on a farm, where she is seduced by her husband, Per Mortensen. As it turns out she is with child, she gets a tough time among local residents. They consider it the greatest shame that can befall a young, unmarried girl. Per refuses bargain t...

When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy....

1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur ...

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The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his uncle to his father-in-law....

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A story about poverty, unrequited love and manslaughter....

Also known as "Der Wechselbalg." Two parents traveling through the woods mistakenly drop their young baby. By the time they find the child, they are shocked to see it has been replaced with a young troll. Animated short based on the fairy tale by Sel...

A description of Selma Lagerlöf in her home in Mårbacka. Selma studies photographs of Victor Sjöström's latest filmization; Emperor of Portugal. Selma goes to the movies to watch the movie. Selma studies the film rolls themselves....

A Florentine legend tells the story of a blunt and arrogant blacksmith who enlists with the Crusaders in an attempt to rekindle the love his wife once had for him. After seizing Jerusalem, he lights up a candle in the tomb of Christ and bets to a Min...

Pictures of Mårbacka and Uppsala. Episodes from films based on Selma Lagerlöf's books. The author herself reads from one of her books....