The Kingdom of Rye (1929)
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Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.
- Date of release
- 1929-12-26
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Ivar Johansson
Casting
- Mathias Taube — Mattias Spangar
- Eric Laurent — Markus
- Märtha Lindlöf — Widow
- Margit Manstad — Klara
- Artur Cederborgh — Prophet
- Gustav Runsten — Farmhand
- Axel Slangus — Kniv-Pekka
- Gösta Ericsson — Ante
- Solveig Hedengran — Stina
- Lizzie Nyström — Old Maid
- Sven Bergvall — Gusten
- Wictor Hagman — Jan
Interesting facts
The Realm of the Rye is a 1929 Swedish black-and-white silent film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Mathias Taube, Margit Manstad and Eric Laurent. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. It was remade into a 1950 film The Realm of the Rye, also directed by Johansson.
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