Best of Sweden: TERJE VIGEN  / A MAN THERE WAS [OmeU] SWE 1916, R: Victor Sjöström mit Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erasthoff, 65 Min

Edward Munch on celluloid accompanied by the grandmaster on the fortepiano EKKEHARD WÖLK

TERJE VIGEN  / A MAN THERE WAS [OmeU]
SWE 1916, R: Victor Sjöström mit Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erasthoff, 65 Min

A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) basiert auf Henryk Ibsen und
ist ein Meisterwerk des damals (1917) besten Filmregisseurs:
Victor Sjöström.

Niemand hatte vorher den Kampf eines Menschen mit den Naturgewalten des Meeres als Spiegel der menschlichen Misere zwischen Krieg, Missgunst, Rache und dem Versuch, trotz allem Mensch zu bleiben, besser dargestellt!

Edward Munch auf Zelluloid.
Ein Durchbruch für den Film als Kunst.

Genial vertont vom Großmeister auf dem Hammerklavier: EKKEHARD WÖLK

ENGL.
A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) is based on Henryk Ibsen and
is a masterpiece by the best film director of the time (1917):
Victor Sjöström.
 
No one had previously portrayed a man's struggle with the forces of nature forces of the sea as a mirror of human misery between war, resentment, revenge and the attempt to remain human despite everything!

Edward Munch on celluloid, a breakthrough for film as art. Ingeniously set to music by the grandmaster on the fortepiano: EKKEHARD WÖLK

Wegen eines anderen Mannes hat ein Seemann seine Familie verloren. Jahre später hat er die Möglichkeit, Rache zu nehmen.

A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.

It was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, with a budget of SEK 60.000, marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in more total quality.

This film is considered to be the start of the golden age of Swedish silent film that would end after Gösta Berlings saga in 1925, although films such as Ingeborg Holm (1913) are often assigned to this era as well.