Nils Elffors
Nacimiento : 1885-12-24, Stockholm, Sweden
Muerte : 1925-08-20
Special Effects
Reconstrucción minuciosa de la sociedad sueca de principios del siglo XIX a través de la historia de un sacerdote alcohólico redimido por el amor de una condesa.
Gösta Berling es un ministro joven y atractivo. Debido a que es un alcohólico y sus sermones son demasiado atrevidas, finalmente es expulsado. Sale de la ciudad en desgracia y llega a la mansión de la condesa Marta. Su nuevo trabajo allí es ser tutor de la hermosa hijastra de la condesa. Pronto se enamoran el uno del otro, pero no saben que la condesa lo contrató solo porque tiene sus propios planes secretos. (Eddie Constanti)
David's Companion
Es Nochevieja. Tres borrachos evocan una leyenda según la cual si un gran pecador es la última persona que muere al terminar el año, entonces tendrá que conducir durante un año entero la Carreta Fantasma que recoge las almas de los muertos. David Holm, uno de los tres borrachos, muere cuando suena la última campanada de la medianoche...
Farm worker
Un extraño llega a trabajar a la granja de la viuda Halla. Pronto ambos caerán en las redes del amor, pero todo se vendrá abajo cuando el turbio pasado del hombre salga a la luz. Decididos, sin embargo, a seguir juntos, deciden dejarlo todo y refugiarse en las montañas de Islandia, aunque eso signifique vivir en la miseria.
In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Special Effects
La película se basa en las 52 estrofas del poema épico del mismo nombre (1882), que narra la dramática historia del marinero Terje Vigen, que durante las guerras Napoleónicas (1807-1814), iba en barca desde Mandal a Dinamarca para llevarle cebada a su hambrienta familia.
Terje's Friend
La película se basa en las 52 estrofas del poema épico del mismo nombre (1882), que narra la dramática historia del marinero Terje Vigen, que durante las guerras Napoleónicas (1807-1814), iba en barca desde Mandal a Dinamarca para llevarle cebada a su hambrienta familia.
Anton
Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
Student on stairs
Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death
Unit Manager
Brandts betjänt
During a duck hunt the local land owner Brandt has told his ranger and his son to sit in a boat and collect ducks as they are shot down. When Brandt's dog gets in the water he commands the ranger's son to jump in the water to save the dog but the boy drowns.
Farmhand
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
Special Effects
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
A lieutenant in love with a woman cheat on his money and forces him to forge a bill of exchange. He kills the creditor and flees abroad. A few years later he gets a job as a stagehand. By chance he run into the woman.