''Charlotte Löwensköld'' is a 1930 Swedish

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Gustaf Molander Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander, ''née'' Wessler, and his brother was t ...

and starring

Pauline Brunius Pauline Brunius, née ''Emma Maria Pauline Lindstedt'' (10 February 1881 in Stockholm – 30 March 1954 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor, screenwriter and film and theatre director. She was the managing director of the Royal Dra ...

Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren Gertrud Pålson-Wettergren (17 February 1897 – 26 November 1991) was a Swedish mezzo-soprano. She was hired at Royal Swedish Opera between 1922 and 1948. On 20 December 1935 she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan as Amne ...

and Birgit Sergelius. It is an adaptation of the 1925 novel '' Charlotte Löwensköld'' by

Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was ...

. The film was not considered a success, and no further adaptations of Lagerlöf's work were made in her lifetime.Larrson & Marklund p.91 The story was the basis for the 1979 film of the same title.

Cast

as Beate Ekenstedt *

as Anna Svärd * Birgit Sergelius as Charlotte Löwensköld * Axel Nilsson as Forsius, vicar * Stina Berg as Mrs. Forsius * Eric Barclay as Karl-Artur Ekenstedt * Urho Somersalmi as Schagerström * Kolbjörn Knudsen as Pontus Friman * Edith Wallén as Thea Sundler * Alfred Lundberg as Bishop

References

Bibliography

* Larsson, Mariah & Marklund, Anders (ed.). ''Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader''. Nordic Academic Press, 2010.

External links

* 1930 films 1930 drama films Swedish drama films 1930s Swedish-language films Films directed by Gustaf Molander Films based on Swedish novels Films based on works by Selma Lagerlöf Swedish black-and-white films 1930s Swedish films Swedish-language drama films {{1930s-Sweden-film-stub