Victor Sjöström
Birthday: 1879-09-21
Place of Birth: Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden
Biography: Victor David Sjöström (September 20, 1879 – January 3, 1960), sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).
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Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...
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Minns ni?
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 ...
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To Joy
Two violinists in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along....
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The Outlaw and His Wife
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is ...
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and...
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Walpurgis Night
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to...
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The Phantom Carriage
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the l...
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A Man There Was
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Year...
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The Gardener
A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the ...
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Kiss of Death
After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. ...
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Farlig vår
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a s...
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Ordet
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmar...
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Thomas Graal's Best Film
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas s...
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Stjärnbilder
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con...
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Mot nya tider
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the ...
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Father and Son
Mr Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few s...
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The Hell Ship
A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought b...
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Sons of Ingmar
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem....
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the ...
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Gubben kommer
The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. ...
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The Great John Ericsson
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and b...
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Jag är med eder...
Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leavin...
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Love
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to d...
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film...
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I prövningens stund
Sven Nilsson has a wife and a little child. One day the child gets very sick and Sven has to find a ...
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Livets konflikter
The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict....
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För sin kärleks skull
The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money....
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Barnet
Mary and Georg love each other, but he is rejected by Mary's father who has suffered insecurity and ...
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Scattered Pages
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father ...
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The Emperor of Portugallia
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he s...
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The Springtime of Life
A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international ope...
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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
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There's a Fire Burning
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistanc...
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The Fight Continues
Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter In...
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Synnöve Solbakken
Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel....
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to ...
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The Quartet That Split Up
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the s...
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The Voice of Passion
A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. Hi...
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Männen i mörker
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet kno...
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The House Surrounded
Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When the ...
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Strejken
An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor....
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1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv...
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Vampire
A lieutenant in love with a woman cheat on his money and forces him to forge a bill of exchange. He ...
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When Love Kills
After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home for...
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The Black Masks
"The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend an i...
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Hård klang
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German op...
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Högfjällets dotter
A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village....
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Railroad Workers
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay o...
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