To the Orient

{{short description|1926 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = To the Orient

| image = File:To the Orient.jpg

| caption =

| director = Gustaf Molander

| producer = Oscar Hemberg

| based_on =Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf

| writer = Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Gustaf Molander

| narrator =

| starring = Lars Hanson
Jenny Hasselqvist
Mona Mårtenson

| music =

| editing =

| cinematography = Julius Jaenzon
Carl-Axel Söderström

| studio = Nord-Westi Film

| distributor = Svenska Biografteaterns Filmbyrå
UFA (Germany)

| released = {{Film date|1926|02|01|df=yes}}

| runtime = 94 minutes

| country = Sweden

| language = {{ubl|Silent|Swedish intertitles}}

| budget =

| gross =

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To the Orient (Swedish: Till österland) is a 1926 Swedish silent drama film directed as well as co-written by Gustaf Molander and starring Lars Hanson, Jenny Hasselqvist and Mona Mårtenson.Larsson & Marklund p.90Qvist & Von Bagh p.29 It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and on location in Jaffa and Jerusalem in Mandatory Palestine. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. Based on the 1901-02 novel Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf, it is the sequel to the 1925 film Ingmar's Inheritance.

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Bibliography

  • Larsson, Mariah & Marklund, Anders. Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader. Nordic Academic Press, 2010.
  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.