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- Loan Terms:
- Circulating
- Status:
- IN
- DVD007056
-
Walpurgis Night
-
Edgren, Gustaf
-
Criterion Collection, 2020
- Title:
- Walpurgis Night
- Alternate Title:
- Valborgsmässoafton
- Director:
- Edgren, Gustaf
- Production Co:
- Svensk Filmindustri
- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
79 minutes.
- Country:
- Sweden
- Year:
- 1935
- Publisher:
- Criterion Collection, 2020
- Language:
- Swedish language with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Drama, Romance
- Notes:
- Lena (Ingrid Bergman) is in love with her married boss, Johan (Lars Hanson), in this romantic drama that takes Sweden’s declining birth rate as a backdrop and stirred up controversy with its depiction of abortion. While Lena dreams of marriage and motherhood, Johan’s wife is staunchly unmaternal. Johan and Lena have a chance to be together, but their happiness is threatened by blackmail and murder. The great Victor Sjöström plays Lena’s fiercely protective father, a newspaper editor convinced that the population problem will be solved by love, not legislation.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |