Den starkaste
| Den starkaste | |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Axel Lindblom |
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| Distributed by | Svensk Filmindustri |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
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Den starkaste is a 1929 Swedish silent drama film directed by Axel Lindblom and Alf Sjöberg and starring Bengt Djurberg, Anders Henrikson and Gösta Gustafson.[1][2] It was Sjöberg's debut film as a director. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios and on location in Norway. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde.
Lindblom was inspired by a 1920 expedition to Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen in Svalbard to develop a film about the lives of people living in the Arctic circle. The film, which was reported to be Svensk Filmindustri's fourth production of the year, involved a directorial collaboration between Lindblom and Sjöberg, the latter an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.[3] Lindblom and Sjöberg co-wrote the script.[4] On 22 May 1929, the production departed Stockholm by train for Narvik and Tromsø to begin a planned two-month filming expedition.[5]
Cast
[edit]- Bengt Djurberg as Gustaf
- Anders Henrikson as Ole
- Gösta Gustafson as Jens
- Gun Holmqvist as Ingeborg Larsen
- Kare Pederson as Kare
- Hjalmar Peters as Larsen
- Maria Röhr as Grandmother
- Sivert Brækemo as Olsen
References
[edit]- ↑ "Den starkaste". Swedish Film Database. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ↑ Gustafsson p.89
- ↑ "En ishavsfilm: Alf Sjöberg och Axel Lindblom" [An Arctic Ocean Film: Alf Sjöberg and Axel Lindblom]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 8 March 1929. p. 12.
- ↑ "Scen och film: Sju svenska filmer från Filmindustri" [Scene and film: Seven Swedish films from Filmindustri]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 10 May 1929. p. 12.
- ↑ "Filmexpeditionen till Ishavet startklar" [The film expedition to the Arctic Ocean is ready to set off]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 22 May 1925. p. 12.
Bibliography
[edit]- Gustafsson, Tommy. Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films. McFarland, 2014.
- Kwiatkowski, Aleksander. Swedish Film Classics: A Pictorial Survey of 25 Films from 1913 to 1957. Courier Dover Publications, 1983.
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