The Fairy of Solbakken (1919)
Synnöve Solbakken
Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
- Date of release
- 1919-10-20
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- John W. Brunius
Casting
- Karin Molander — Synnöve Solbakken
- Lars Hanson — Thorbjörn Granliden
- Egil Eide — Sämund Granliden
- Hjalmar Peters — Guttorm Solbakken
- Svea Peters — Ingebjörg Granliden
- Gösta Cederlund — Knud Nordhaug
- Ellen Dall — Ingrid Granliden
- Ingrid Sandahl — Karen Solbakken
- Palle Brunius — Young Thorbjörn
- Solveig Hedengran — Young Synnöve
- Stina Kåge — Young Ingrid
- Einar Röd — Aslak
Interesting facts
- Based on: Synnøve Solbakken
Synnöve Solbakken is a Swedish silent film from 1919 directed by John W. Brunius. The screenplay was written by Brunius and Sam Ask. It is based on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's 1857 novel Synnøve Solbakken. The novel was adapted for film two additional times in Sweden.
Filming
The film was shot in the summer of 1919 at the Skandiaateljén studio in the Långängen neighborhood of Stocksund, Sweden and in Sel Municipality in Norway's Gudbrandsdalen valley.
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