Life in the Country (1924 film)

Life in the Country (Swedish: Livet på landet) is a 1924 Swedish silent drama film directed by Ivan Hedqvist and starring Axel Ringvall, Hedqvist and Mona Mårtenson. It is based on the classic German novel From My Farming Days by Fritz Reuter. It is now considered a lost film.[1] A second Swedish adaptation of the novel Life in the Country was produced in 1943.

Life in the Country
Directed byIvan Hedqvist
Written by
Based onFrom My Farming Days by Fritz Reuter
Produced byOscar Hemberg
Starring
CinematographyJulius Jaenzon
Production
company
Aladdin-Film
Release date
  • 3 November 1924 (1924-11-03)
Running time
97 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguagesSilent
Swedish intertitles

The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde.

Synopsis

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A ruthless landowner drives the widowed Karl Hawermann and his daughter Louise from their land.

Cast

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Preservation status

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Life in the Country is considered a lost film, except for a very short fragment that survived in the SVT archive thanks to its inclusion in a newsreel on the occasion of Axel Ringvall's death in 1927.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Gustafsson p.179
  2. ^ "Livet på landet (1924) - SFdb" (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 February 2023.

Bibliography

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  • Tommy Gustafsson. Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films. McFarland, 2014.
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