''Mot nya tider'' (Toward New Times) is a Swedish film from 1939 directed by
Sigurd Wallén
Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén (1 September 188420 March 1947) was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer. It portrays the
dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden
The dissolution of the union ( nb, unionsoppløsningen; nn, unionsoppløysinga; Landsmål: ''unionsuppløysingi''; sv, unionsupplösningen) between the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden under the House of Bernadotte, was set in motion by a resolu ...
. The film was shot from February to May 1939 at Sandrew Studios ( sv, Sandrewateljéerna) in
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
, and
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
.
Cast
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Victor Sjöström
Victor David Sjöström (; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), also known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in ...
as
Hjalmar Branting
Karl Hjalmar Branting (; 23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician who was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) from 1907 until his death in 1925, and three times Prime Minister of Sweden. When Branting cam ...
, Swedish politician
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Sigurd Wallén
Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén (1 September 188420 March 1947) was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer.Bengt Djurberg
Bengt Djurberg (23 July 1898 – 2 November 1941) was a Swedish actor and singer. He appeared in about 25 roles in films from 1919 to 1940. His film debut was in Mauritz Stiller's film ''Sången om den eldröda blomman'' in 1919.
Selected filmo ...
as Johan Dahlberg, an engineer
*
Solveig Hedengran
Solveig Hedengran (26 April 1910 – 29 April 1956) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She appeared in about 30 films between 1919 and 1956.
Selected filmography
* '' Synnöve Solbakken'' (1919)
* ''German Women - German Faithfulness'' (1 ...
as Elin Ström
* Gun-Mari Kjellström as Eva, Johan and Elin's daughter as an infant
* Ulla Hodell as Eva as a young girl
*
Marianne Aminoff
Marianne Aminoff (21 September 1916 – 14 April 1984) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Uddevalla, Sweden and died in Stockholm.
Partial filmography
* ''John Ericsson, Victor of Hampton Roads'' (1937) - Mary
* '' Thunder and Li ...
as Eva as an adult
*
Karl Holter
Karl Holter (June 30, 1885 – June 7, 1963) was a Norwegian actor, writer, and Waffen--SS soldier.
Holter was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He debuted in 1912 at the Central Theater and after that was mainly engaged with the Norwegi ...
as Henrik Thygesen, a Norwegian
*
Georg Løkkeberg
Georg Løkkeberg (20 November 1909 – 19 August 1986) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He appeared in 29 films between 1934 and 1978. He starred in the film '' The Master and His Servants'', which was entered into the 9th Berlin ...
as Christian Thygesen, Henrik's brother, a Norwegian lieutenant / Helge Thygesen as an adult
*
Åke Johansson
Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (19 March 1928 – 21 December 2014) was a Swedish football player.
Johansson played as a center half in IFK Norrköping and capped 53 times for the national team between 1955 and 1965. With IFK Norrköping he owns the ...
as Helge Thygesen, Christian's son as a child
* Ingela Lundstedt as Sigrid Bergström, Christian Thygesen's fiancé, Helge's mother
*
Thor Modéen
Thor Modéen (22 January 1898 – 28 May 1950) was a Swedish actor and comedian who was active in both movies and on stage. Thor Modéen Teatern, a 3D cinema and theater in Kungsör, was named in his honor.
Biography
Thor Odert Folke Modée ...
as Lindqvist
*
Ingolf Schanche
Ingolf Findregaard Schanche (13 June 1877 – 15 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. He spent most of his career at Nationaltheatret in Oslo, and was also the first artistic director at Det Nye Teater.
Personal life
Schan ...
as
Christian Michelsen
Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen (15 March 1857 – 29 June 1925), better known as Christian Michelsen, was a Norwegian shipping magnate and statesman. He was the first prime minister of independent Norway and Norway's 9th prime minis ...
, Norwegian prime minister
*
David Knudsen
David Knudsen (8 August 1875 – 3 July 1952) was a Norwegian actor. He made his stage debut on Den Nationale Scene in 1902, and played for the National Theatre from 1911 to 1960.
He made his film debut in 1925 in '' Himmeluret'', and later ...
as
Jørgen Løvland
Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland (3 February 1848 – 21 August 1922) was a Norwegian educator and civil servant of the Liberal Party who served as the 10th prime minister of Norway from 1907 to 1908.
Background
Løvland was born at Lauvland in Evj ...
, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs
*
Leif Amble-Næss
Leif Amble-Næss (May 8, 1896 – January 18, 1974) was a Norwegian actor, singer, and theater director.
Amble-Næss debuted in 1916 at Oslo's Central Theater, where he mostly appeared in comedies and operettas. At the National Theater he dire ...
as
Harald Bothner
Harald Bothner (30 November 1850 – 24 October 1924) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party, born in Halden. He was a district stipendiary magistrate by profession. From 1878 to 1880 he worked as a solicitor in Sarpsborg, before moving ...
Edvard Hagerup Bull
Edvard Hagerup Bull (23 January 1855 – 25 March 1938) was a Norwegian jurist and assessor of the Supreme Court of Norway. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and government official with the Conservative Party of Norway.
Background
Ed ...
, Norwegian minister
*
Olof Sandborg
Olof Sandborg (April 30, 1884 in Göteborg – March 26, 1965 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962.
Filmography
* '' Blodets röst'' (1913)
* '' Lady Marions sommarflirt'' (1913)
* ''Svär ...
as King
Oscar II
Oscar II (Oscar Fredrik; 21 January 1829 – 8 December 1907) was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death in 1907 and King of Norway from 1872 to 1905.
Oscar was the son of King Oscar I and Queen Josephine. He inherited the Swedish and Norweg ...
Gustav
Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to:
*Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin
Art, entertainment, and media
* ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film
* ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short cart ...
*
Sven Bergvall
Sven Bergvall (25 May 1881 – 2 November 1960) was a Swedish actor.
Biography
Bergvall made his stage debut in 1901 and was since 1917 at the Dramaten. He acted in Swedish films from 1914 to 1954.
He fought energetically for the actors' prof ...
as
Christian Lundeberg
Christian Lundeberg (14 July 1842 – 10 November 1911) was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 2 August to 7 November 1905.
Biography
Lundeberg was born in Valbo, Gävleborg County. He was the son of Johan Ulrik ...
, Swedish prime minister
*
Ragnar Widestedt
Ragnar Widestedt (3 May 1887 – 4 February 1954) was a Swedish stage and film actor, singer, composer and occasional film director. Freiburg p.106
Selected filmography
* ''House Slaves'' (1923)
* ''Skipper's Love'' (1931)
* '' A Night of Love ...
Rune Carlsten
Rune Carlsten (1890–1970) was a Swedish actor, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
Carlsten studied at Stockholm University 1908–1910, was involved with Einar Fröberg's theater company 1910–1912, at the Swedish Theater in Stockho ...
as
Karl Staaff
Karl Albert Staaff (21 January 1860 – 4 October 1915) was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party (1907–1915) and served twice as Prime Minister of Sweden (1905–1906 and 1911–1914).
Staaff ...
August Palm
August Teodor Palm (5 February 1849 – 14 March 1922) was a Swedish socialist activist and a key person in introducing the then revolutionary social democratic labour movement in Sweden.
Life
Early activism
The son of a school teacher ne ...
, Swedish politician
*
Willy Peters
Willy Peters (31 January 1915 – 13 August 1976) was a Swedish actor and director. He appeared in about 50 films. He was married to actress Agneta Lagerfeldt.
Selected filmography
* ''Ungdom av i dag'' (1935) - Nyblom
* '' Med folket för fos ...
Carl Barcklind
Carl Barcklind (1 June 1873 – 21 August 1945) was a Swedish stage and film actor. Biography
Carl Vilhelm Barcklind was born at Sala in Västmanland County, Sweden. He made his debut as an opera singer in 1907 at the Oscarsteatern.
He was associ ...
as Semmy Rubenson, Stockholm chief of police
*
Gösta Cederlund
Gösta Cederlund, ''Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund'', (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Swedish actor and film director. He was a popular character actor from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Selected filmography
* '' A Dangerous Wooing'' ( ...
as Governor
Curry Treffenberg
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There are many varieties of curry. The choice of spices for each dish in tradit ...
Tord Bernheim
''Tord'' Georg Bernheim (born Tord Georg Andersson; 18 April 1914 – 23 July 1992), originally Andersson, was a Swedish singer, actor, and revue performer. He was born on 18 April 1914 in Kungsholms parish in Stockholm. He died on 23 July 1992 i ...
Carin Swensson
Carin Swensson (28 February 1905 – 14 October 1990) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1963.
Selected filmography
* '' Boman's Boy'' (1933)
* '' Under False Flag'' (1935)
* '' Ocean Breakers'' (193 ...
Carl Apolloff Carl may refer to:
*Carl, Georgia, city in USA
*Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
*Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name
*Carl², a TV series
* "Carl", an episode of tel ...