The phantom carriage / A film by Victor Sjöström. [Recurso electrínico - Película]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: --- Series: The Criterion Collection ; 1921.Publisher: Estados Unidos : The Criterion Collection, 1921Description: 1 DVD (106 min.) : muda, col. ; 4 3/4 plg. + 1 bookletOther title:
  • La carreta fantasma
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • S567 P43 1921
Contents:
DVD special edition features: new digital restoration, done in collaboration with the Arhival Film Collections of the Swedissh Film Institute -- two scores, one by Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL -- audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg -- interview with Ingmar Bergman, excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner -- the Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on the film's influence on Bergman -- footage of the construction of the Råsunda studio where The Phantom Carriage was the inagural production -- a booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg.
Production credits:
  • Photographer, Julius Jaenzon; producer, Charles Magnusson; art direction, Alexander Bakó and Axel Esbensen; director, script, and actor, Victor Sjöström.
Victor Sjöström (David Holm), Hilda Borgström (Mrs. Holm), Tore Svennberg (Georges), Astrid Holm (Sister Edit), Concordia Selander (Edit's Mother), Lisa Lundholm (Sister Maria), Tor Weijden (Gustafsson), Einar Axelsson (David Holm's Brother), Olof Ås (The first driver of the chariot), Nils Arehn (Prison Chaplain)Summary: The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström. The story, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, concerns an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well (Sjöström himself) who is shown the error of his ways, and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply movingmorality tale, as well as s showcasefor groudbreaking special effects.
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Based on the novel "Körkarlen" by Selma Lagerlöf

DVD special edition features: new digital restoration, done in collaboration with the Arhival Film Collections of the Swedissh Film Institute -- two scores, one by Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL -- audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg -- interview with Ingmar Bergman, excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner -- the Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on the film's influence on Bergman -- footage of the construction of the Råsunda studio where The Phantom Carriage was the inagural production -- a booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg.

Photographer, Julius Jaenzon; producer, Charles Magnusson; art direction, Alexander Bakó and Axel Esbensen; director, script, and actor, Victor Sjöström.

Victor Sjöström (David Holm), Hilda Borgström (Mrs. Holm), Tore Svennberg (Georges), Astrid Holm (Sister Edit), Concordia Selander (Edit's Mother), Lisa Lundholm (Sister Maria), Tor Weijden (Gustafsson), Einar Axelsson (David Holm's Brother), Olof Ås (The first driver of the chariot), Nils Arehn (Prison Chaplain)

The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen), directed by the father of Swedish cinema, Victor Sjöström. The story, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, concerns an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well (Sjöström himself) who is shown the error of his ways, and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply movingmorality tale, as well as s showcasefor groudbreaking special effects.

DVD, Dolby digital, región 1

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