Home from Babylon
{{short description|1941 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Home from Babylon
| image = Home from Babylon.jpg
| caption =
| director = Alf Sjöberg
| producer =
| writer = Sigfrid Siwertz
Alf Sjöberg
| based_on = Home from Babylon by Sigfrid Siwertz
| starring = Gerd Hagman
Arnold Sjöstrand
Georg Rydeberg
| music = Miff Görling
Arthur Österwall
Seymour Österwall
| cinematography = Karl-Erik Alberts
| editing = Tage Holmberg
| studio = Wivefilm
| distributor = Wivefilm
| released = {{Film date|1941|12|23|df=y}}
| runtime = 106 minutes
| country = Sweden
| language = Swedish
}}
Home from Babylon ({{langx|sv|Hem från Babylon}}) is a 1941 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg and starring Gerd Hagman, Arnold Sjöstrand and Georg Rydeberg.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=3967 |title=Hem från Babylon |accessdate=15 May 2011 |work=Swedish Film Database |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919162848/http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?type=MOVIE&itemid=3967 |archivedate=19 September 2012}}Gustafsson p.37Qvist & Von Bagh p.131 It was based on a 1923 novel of the same title by Sigfrid Siwertz.Goble p. 431 It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj.
Synopsis
An engineer and a businessman are trying to escape the civil war in Manchuria. They suffer much, including contracting typhoid and the businessman dies. The engineer changes identity with the businessman. Although based on Siwertz's novel, the plot of the novel has been extended in time to the pre-war years of World War II.{{Citation |last=Sjöberg |first=Alf |title=Hem från Babylon |date=1941-12-23 |type=Drama |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033706/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |others=Gerd Hagman, Arnold Sjöstrand, Georg Rydeberg |publisher=Wivefilm}}
Cast
- Gerd Hagman as Britta von Wendt
- Arnold Sjöstrand as Linus Treffenberg
- Georg Rydeberg as Cesar Lee
- Anders Henrikson as Sergej Nabocof
- Irma Christenson as Marcelle
- Olof Widgren as John Bidencap
- Rune Carlsten as Wigelius
- Georg Funkquist as Hugo
- Barbro Kollberg as Gunborg
- Frank Sundström as Marabou
References
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Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Gustafsson, Fredrik. The Man from the Third Row: Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman. Berghahn Books, 2016.
- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0033706|Home from Babylon}}
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Category:1940s Swedish-language films
Category:Swedish black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Alf Sjöberg
Category:Films based on Swedish novels
Category:Films based on works by Sigfrid Siwertz
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