The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1947 film)
{{short description|1947 film by Gustaf Edgren}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Tösen från Stormyrtorpet
| image = File:The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1947 film).jpg
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| caption =
| director = Gustaf Edgren
| producer = Inge Ivarson
| writer =
| based_on = The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf
| screenplay = Oscar Rydqvist
Gustaf Edgren
| story =
| starring = Margareta Fahlén
Alf Kjellin
Sten Lindgren
| narrator =
| music = Bengt Wallerström
| cinematography = Martin Bodin
| editing = Tage Holmberg
| studio = Kungsfilm
| distributor = Fribergs Filmbyrå
| released = {{Film date|1947|08|18|df=yes}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
| country = Sweden
| language = Swedish
| budget =
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft (Swedish: Tösen från Stormyrtorpet) is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Edgren and starring Margareta Fahlén, Alf Kjellin and Sten Lindgren.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oH_06bh2XgwC&q=T%C3%B6sen+fr%C3%A5n+Stormyrtorpet+1947&pg=PA114|title=The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film|last=Wright|first=Rochelle|date=1998|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=9780809321643|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdJkAAAAMAAJ&q=T%C3%B6sen+fr%C3%A5n+Stormyrtorpet+1947|title=Bilder vom Norden: schwedisch-deutsche Filmbeziehungen, 1914-1939|last=Vonderau|first=Patrick|date=2007|publisher=Schüren|isbn=9783894724894|language=de}} It is based on the 1908 novella of the same name by Nobel Prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NPtAAAAMAAJ&q=T%C3%B6sen+fr%C3%A5n+Stormyrtorpet+1947|title=Selma Lagerlöf seen from abroad|last=Vinge|first=Louise|date=1998|publisher=Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademien|isbn=9789174022896|language=sv}} The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall.
Cast
- Margareta Fahlén as Helga
- Alf Kjellin as Gudmund Erlandsson
- Sten Lindgren as Eriksson
- Ingrid Borthen as Hildur
- Keve Hjelm as Johan
- Oscar Ljung as Per Martinsson
- Carl Ström as Erland Erlandsson
- Anna Carlsten as Ingeborg Erlandsson
- Sven d'Ailly as Karl Nilsson
- Inez Lundmark-Hermelin as Helga's Mother
- Gösta Cederlund as Frithiof Pettersson
- Erik Berglund as Svensson
- Artur Rolén as Guest at the party
- Sven Bergvall as Martinsson, Per's father
- Gull Natorp as Fortuneteller
- Ivar Kåge as Priest
- Artur Cederborgh as Parish constable
- Wiktor Andersson as Cryer
- Greta Berthels as Stina, maid at Närlunda
- Gösta Bodin as Major at mayor's ball
References
Bibliography
- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0039929}}
- http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=4189
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Category:1940s Swedish-language films
Category:Films directed by Gustaf Edgren
Category:Films based on The Girl from the Marsh Croft (novella)
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