Swedish Silent Film Classics Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( Häxan / Terje Vigen / Gösta Berlings saga / Erotikon / Herr Arnes pengar / Körkarlen ) ( Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages / A Man There Was / The Legend of Gosta Berling / Just Like a Man / Sir Arne's Treasure / The Phantom Carriage )

Swedish Silent Film Classics Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Häxan / Terje Vigen / Gösta Berlings saga / Erotikon / Herr Arnes pengar / Körkarlen
Alternate Title: Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages / A Man There Was / The Legend of Gosta Berling / Just Like a Man / Sir Arne's Treasure / The Phantom Carriage
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
654 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1917 - 1924 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Benjamin Christensen
Victor Sjöström
Mauritz Stiller

Written By:
Benjamin Christensen
Henrik Ibsen
Gustaf Molander
Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Selma Lagerlöf
Ferenc Herczeg
Victor Sjöström

Actors:
Maren Pedersen ..... Heksen / The Witch
Clara Pontoppidan ..... Nonne / Nun
Elith Pio ..... Heksedommer / Witch Judge (The Young Monk)
Oscar Stribolt ..... Graabroder / Doctor (The Fat Monk)
Tora Teje ..... En hysterisk kvinde / Modern Hysteric (The Kelptomaniac)
John Andersen ..... Chief Inquisitor
Benjamin Christensen ..... Djævlen /
The Devil ..... Juveler / Jeweler
Poul Reumert ..... Anna
Karen Winther ..... Gammel jomfru / Old Maid
Kate Fabian ..... Nonne / Nun
Else Vermehren ..... Anna
Astrid Holm ..... Heksedommer / Witch Judge
Johannes Andersen ..... Nonne / Nun
Gerda Madsen ..... Heksedommer / Witch Judge
Aage Hertel
Victor Sjöström ..... Terje Vigen
Edith Erastoff ..... The Lady
August Falck ..... The Lord
Bergliot Husberg ..... Mrs. Vigen
Lars Hanson ..... Gösta Berling
Sven Scholander ..... Sintram
Ellen Hartman-Cederström ..... Märtha Dohna
Mona Mårtenson ..... Ebba Dohna
Torsten Hammarén ..... Henrik Dohna
Greta Garbo ..... Elizabeth Dohna
Gerda Lundequist ..... Majorskan; Margaretha Samzelius
Jenny Hasselqvist ..... Marianne Sinclaire
Sixten Malmerfeldt ..... Melchior Sinclaire
Karin Swanström ..... Gustafva Sinclaire
Oscar Byström ..... Patron Julius
Hugo Rönnblad ..... Beerencreutz
Knut Lambert ..... Örneclou
Svend Kornbeck ..... Christian Bergh
Otto Elg-Lundberg ..... Samzelius
Anders de Wahl ..... Professor Leo Charpentier
Tora Teje ..... Irene Charpentier, the Professor's Wife
Karin Molander ..... Marthe, Leo's Niece
Elin Lagergren ..... Irene's Mother
Lars Hanson ..... Preben Wells, the Sculptor
Vilhelm Bryde ..... Baron Felix
Bell Hedqvist ..... The Baron's Friend
Torsten Hammarén ..... Professor Sidonius
Vilhelm Berndtson ..... Jean the Butler
Stina Berg ..... Servant
John Lindlöf ..... Preben's Friend
Greta Lindgren ..... Preben's Model
Carl Wallin ..... Fur Salesman
Gucken Cederborg ..... Kitchen Maid
Tora Wibergh ..... Jenny
Erik Stocklassa ..... Sir Filip
Bror Berger ..... Sir Donald
Richard Lund ..... Sir Archi
Axel Nilsson ..... Torarin
Hjalmar Selander ..... Herr Arne
Concordia Selander ..... Herr Arne's Wife
Gösta Gustafson ..... Priest
Mary Johnson ..... Elsalill
Wanda Rothgardt ..... Berghild
Stina Berg ..... Landlady
Gustav Aronson ..... Shipmaster
Jenny Öhrström Ebbesen ..... Katri
Victor Sjöström ..... David Holm
Hilda Borgström ..... Mrs. Holm
Tore Svennberg ..... Georges
Astrid Holm ..... Edit
Concordia Selander ..... Edit's Mother
Lisa Lundholm ..... Maria
Tor Weijden ..... Gustafsson
Einar Axelsson ..... David's Brother
Olof Ås ..... Driver
Nils Aréhn ..... Prison Chaplain
Simon Lindstrand ..... David's Companion
Nils Elffors ..... David's Companion
Algot Gunnarsson ..... Worker
Hildur Lithman ..... Worker's wife
John Ekman ..... Police constable

Synopsis:

***WARNING***Silent films with subtitles, as described below***
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) - English subtitles
Benjamin Christensen's pioneering 1922 semi-documentary account of 'witch madness' just will not stay silent.
A Man There Was (1917) - English, Portuguese & Italian subtitles
Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.
The Legend of Gosta Berling (1924) - English, French, Portuguese, German & Spanish subtitles
A priest, forced to leave the priesthood because of his drinking, falls in love with a young married woman.
Just Like a Man (1920) - English, German, Spanish, Portuguese & Italian subtitles
A professor has a bit of an infatuation with his niece; the professor's wife, a cosmopolitan lady of leisure, takes up with a flashy aviator...
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919) - English, French, German, Spanish & Portuguese subtitles
In 16th-century Sweden, an unspeakable crime forever altered a small coastal community.
The Phantom Carriage (1921) - English, French, German, Italian & Portuguese subtitles
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend...

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, witchcraft and witch-hunts. Finally the film compares the behavior of hysteria of contemporary (1921) women with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.
A Man There Was (1917)
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
The Legend of Gosta Berling (1924)
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because he is an alcoholic and his preaches are far too daring, he is finally defrocked. He leaves the town in disgrace and arrives at countess Marta's manor. His new job there is to be a tutor to countess' beautiful stepdaughter. They eventually fall in love with each other. But they don't know that countess hired him only because she has some secret plans of her own...
Just Like a Man (1920)
EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting unusually close with his own niece. Stiller obviously delights in teasing his audience with each scandalous plot twist and every salacious leer, and the result is a deliciously subversive comedy that was very much ahead of its time.
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer - Sir Archi, and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers. She is in a classic dilemma between her love for Sir Archi and justice.
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
At New Year's Eve, the tuberculous sister of the Salvation Army, Edit, asks her mother and her colleague, Maria, to call David Holm to visit her on her deathbed. Meanwhile, David (an alcoholic) is recounting the Legend of 'The Phantom Coach and his coachmen' to two other drunkards in the cemetery. In accordance with the legend, the last sinner to die on the turn of the New Year becomes the soul collector, gathering souls in his coach. When David refuses to visit Edit, his friends have an argument with him, they fight and David dies. When the coachman arrives, he recognizes his friend Georges, who died at the end of the last year. George revisits parts of David's obnoxious life and in flashbacks, he shows how mean and selfish David was.

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)
Benjamin Christensen's pioneering 1922 semi-documentary account of 'witch madness' just will not stay silent.
A Man There Was (1917)
A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.
The Legend of Gosta Berling (1924)
A priest, forced to leave the priesthood because of his drinking, falls in love with a young married woman. Garbo shines in the first role which brought her critical acclaim; Hanson's performance also makes this a memorable drama. …
Just Like a Man (1920)
A professor has a bit of an infatuation with his niece; the professor's wife, a cosmopolitan lady of leisure, takes up with a flashy aviator, mainly, it seems, to torment a sculptor who loves her; turn up the heat, stir, and wait for the boil…
Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
In 16th-century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and an aging Swedish vicar and his family intersect, and in the unspeakable crime that results, a small coastal community is forever altered.
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...

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