''Pan'' is a 1922 Norwegian

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directed by

Harald Schwenzen Harald Schwenzen (18 May 1895 – 16 April 1954) was a Norwegian actor and director. Born in Glücksberg, Germany, he relocated to Norway where he made his stage debut at Nationaltheatret in 1918, and played for this theatre for many years. S ...

. It was the first of four film adaptations of the

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

of the same name by 1920

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winner

Knut Hamsun Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective a ...

, and one of the earliest Scandinavian adaptations of a Hamsun work (preceded only by a 1921 film of '' Growth of the Soil''). It tells the story of a romance between a wealthy woman and a soldier, and was filmed in

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and in

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(standing in for the Indian locations in the novel). According to author Donald Dewey, ''Pan'' was popular with the Norwegian public, but when Hamsun himself was asked for his reaction, he commented only, "I don’t understand film and I am in bed with the flu," and hung up.Donald Dewey
"Edging Out of Darkness" Norway’s Long Struggle to Establish a Thriving Film Industry"
, ''Scandinavian Review'' ( The American-Scandinavian Foundation), Autumn 2010, pp. 18, 30. Michael Wilmington of the ''

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'' describes it as "A fine film and a real discovery".

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* 1922 films 1920s Norwegian-language films Norwegian black-and-white films Norwegian silent films 1922 drama films Films based on works by Knut Hamsun Norwegian drama films Silent drama films {{Norway-film-stub