Bjørnson Collection (3 Films) - 2-DVD Set ( Synnöve Solbakken / En glad gutt / Ett farligt frieri ) ( Fairy of Solbakken / A Happy Boy / A Dangerous Proposal )

Bjørnson Collection (3 Films) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Synnöve Solbakken / En glad gutt / Ett farligt frieri
Alternate Title: Fairy of Solbakken / A Happy Boy / A Dangerous Proposal
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Mono )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Norway ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
253 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1919 - 1932 and produced in:
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
John W. Brunius
Rune Carlsten

Written By:
Sam Ask
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Actors:
Harald Aimarsen ..... Knud's Friend
Torsten Bergström ..... Young Thorbjörn
Palle Brunius ..... Knud's Friend
Einar Bruun ..... Knud's Friend
Artur Cederborgh ..... Knud Nordhaug
Gösta Cederlund ..... Ingrid Granliden
Ellen Dall ..... Sämund Granliden
Egil Eide ..... Church Visitor
Emil Fjellström ..... The Doctor
Justus Hagman ..... Thorbjörn Granliden
Lars Hanson ..... Young Synnöve
Solveig Hedengran ..... Young Man at the Haugean Meeting
Anders Henrikson ..... The Bride
Lisa Holm ..... Young Ingrid
Stina Kåge ..... The Priest
Alfred Lundberg ..... Church Visitor
John Melin ..... Synnöve Solbakken
Karin Molander ..... Guttorm Solbakken
Hjalmar Peters ..... Ingebjörg Granliden
Svea Peters ..... Aslak
Einar Röd ..... Karen Solbakken
Ingrid Sandahl ..... Young Man Who Reads at the Haugean Meeting
Harald Wehlnor
Hauk Aabel ..... Ola Nordistua
Gøril Havrevold ..... (Norwegian Version)
Tore Foss ..... Øyvind husmansgutt
Eugen Skjønberg ..... Far til Øyvind
Harald Stormoen ..... Bård skolemester
Ragnhild Hald ..... Mor til Øyvind
Andreas Bjarke ..... Jon Hatlen
Hjørdis Bjarke ..... En bondejente
Johs. Jensen ..... Presten
Lars Hanson ..... Tore Naesset
Gull Cronvall ..... Aslaug
Theodor Blich ..... Knut Husaby
Hjalmar Peters ..... Thormund
Kurt Welin ..... Ola Thormundson
Hugo Tranberg ..... Sigurd Husaby
Gösta Cederlund ..... Eyvind Husaby
Hilda Castegren ..... Tore's Mother
Uno Henning ..... Suitor
Torsten Bergström ..... Musician

Synopsis:

Fairy of Solbakken (1919)*Silent with English, Norwegian & Swedish subtitles*
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
A Happy Boy (1932)*Norwegian audio with English subtitles*
Øjvind, a smallholder's boy, is a close friend with Marit, a farmer's girl, throughout their entire childhood. As an adolescent he one day recognizes that she has become a maiden, and that he has fallen in love with her. When he sees Marit dancing with Jon Halten, a farmer's son, he gets sad, and notices that when you start loving someone, you are not cheerful any more...
A Dangerous Proposal (1919)*Silent with English, Norwegian & Swedish subtitles*
The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him...

Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
A Happy Boy (1932)
Øjvind, a smallholder's boy, is a close friend with Marit, a farmer's girl, throughout their entire childhood. As an adolescent he one day recognizes that she has become a maiden, and that he has fallen in love with her. When he sees Marit dancing with Jon Halten, a farmer's son, he gets sad, and notices that when you start loving someone, you are not cheerful any more. He senses the social distance between himself and Marit, and tries to compensate this by becoming the best pupil in the village. Øjvind wants to study at an agricultural college, and the old schoolmaster helps him to arrange this. When he some years later returns to the village as an agronomist, he and Marit resume their romance. Because of their different social status Marit's grandfather, Ola Nordistua, tries to stop the liaison. With new agricultural methods Øjvind helps his father to get better harvests. At the same time the old Ola Nordistua sees his farm going downhill as no one really cares for it. He recognizes his mistake concerning Øjvind, and gives him his granddaughter and the farm.
A Dangerous Proposal (1919)
The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.

Celebrating the 2010 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson anniversary we are proud to present, for the first time on DVD, a collection of the earliest film versions of his famous pastorals: two Swedish silent films, Synnøve Solbakken and A Dangerous Proposal, both from 1919, and the early Norwegian sound film, A Happy Boy, from 1932.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 March, 2015.

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