Ingmar's legacy

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Movie
German title Ingmar's legacy
Original title Ingmarsarvet
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1925
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Gustaf Molander
script Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Gustaf Molander based
on the novel Jerusalem by Selma Lagerlöf
production Oscar Hemberg
camera J. Julius
occupation

Ingmar's legacy , also known under the German secondary title Die Erde ruft - Jerusalem, Part 1 , is a Swedish silent film from 1925. This third part of an opulent, four-part film saga (1918 to 1926) based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf was directed Gustaf Molander .

action

After Elias' death, the way to Halfvor is clear for Karin. He had already advertised her before Karin's marriage, but threw himself out of the race through a stupid mistake. Both lovers fall into the clutches of a sectarian named Hellgum who seems fascinating to many. He wants to leave for Jerusalem and has already gathered 150 men and women from the Dalarna Province behind him for this exodus.

While Karin and Halfvor also join the enigmatic “soul catcher”, Ingmar, Karin's son from the failed relationship with drunkard Elias, wants to stay in Sweden. He is now engaged to his childhood friend, Gertrud. However, the young woman is disappointed to see Ingmar giving up after the community leader has offered him his daughter Barbro. As a particularly attractive, additional gift, the takeover of the Ingmarshof, which has been run down and lost due to Elias' mismanagement, beckons. Gertrud then decides to join the trek to Jerusalem.

Production notes

The film had its world premiere on December 26, 1925. Vilhelm Bryde designed the film structures . The German Conrad Veidt , who specializes in demonic and extreme characters, was hired for the key role of the difficult-to-understand and sinister-looking sectarian Hellgum .

Reviews

Reclam's film guide says about “Ingmar's legacy”: “Molander's film also cleverly brought the Swedish landscape and the rural milieu into the picture. Despite undeniable qualities, however, it did not achieve the strength and intensity of the first parts that Sjöström turned. "

Heinrich Fraenkel's Immortal Film. The great chronicle from Laterna Magica to the sound film praised the performance of Conrad Veidt, “who gave himself up to this role and played it with so much inwardness that even the tear on his cheek really cried and not, as usual, through Glycerine was evoked ”.

Kay Weniger The large Personenlexikon of the film wrote in Molanders Biography: "As Sjostrom also referred Molander the landscape as a central part of the story, as an essential, dramatic element into the action with a".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 73. Stuttgart 1973.
  2. ^ Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Munich 1956, p. 343
  3. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 501.

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