A Man There Was (1917)
With Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg
Directed by Victor Sjöström
A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 silent Swedish drama co-written and directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen. With a budget of SEK 60,000, it was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in better overall quality.
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