A group of people traveling through Sweden. It is partly the shop assistants Inga and Britta who travel on a bike through the country, partly Nisse and Rut who are on a honeymoon and travel with a truck.
Helga Suotorppa has given birth to an illegitimate child while working as a maid. Inkeri, the kind-hearted mistress of the Lehtola house, offers the woman, who has a bad reputation in the village community, a place to work, which the desperate Helga gratefully accepts. She supports Mauria, who is...
Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.
Helga is on a farm, where she is seduced by her husband, Per Mortensen. As it turns out she is with child, she gets a tough time among local residents. They consider it the greatest shame that can befall a young, unmarried girl. Per refuses bargain to be the father of the child. Her parents can not...
Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a...
Also known as "Der Wechselbalg." Two parents traveling through the woods mistakenly drop their young baby. By the time they find the child, they are shocked to see it has been replaced with a young troll. Animated short based on the fairy tale by Selma Lagerlöf.
A description of Selma Lagerlöf in her home in Mårbacka. Selma studies photographs of Victor Sjöström's latest filmization; Emperor of Portugal. Selma goes to the movies to watch the movie. Selma studies the film rolls themselves.
A Florentine legend tells the story of a blunt and arrogant blacksmith who enlists with the Crusaders in an attempt to rekindle the love his wife once had for him. After seizing Jerusalem, he lights up a candle in the tomb of Christ and bets to a Minstrel that he can carry it to Florence, all by...
