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Mot nya tider (1939)
Directed by Sigurd Wallén
Overview
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings “Fourteen years I believe certain that I was” in the Grand Hotel’s Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Victor Sjöström | Sigurd Wallén | Bengt Djurberg | Solveig Hedengran | Leif Amble-Næss | Marianne Aminoff | Carl Apolloff | Carl Barcklind | Sven Bergvall | Tord Bernheim | Gunnar Björnstrand | Rune Carlsten | Gösta Cederlund | Georg Fernqvist | Ulla Hodell | Karl Holter | Åke Johansson | Gun-Mari Kjellström | David Knudsen | Sigval Kvam | Arne Lindblad | Ingela Lundstedt | Georg Løkkeberg | Hjalmar Meissner | Thor Modéen | Willy Peters | Olof Sandborg | Ingolf Schanche | Stina Ståhle | Carin Swensson | Karl-Magnus Thulstrup | Ragnar Widestedt | Emmy Albiin | Artur Cederborgh | Hartwig Fock | Åke Grönberg | Oscar Heurlin | Olle Hilding | Axel Högel | Ludde Juberg | Knut Lambert | Anna Olin | Siri Olson | Hanny Schedin | Georg Skarstedt | Åke Uppström | Olov Wigren | Arthur Fischer | Ernst Brunman | Valborg Svensson | Gunnar Almqvist | Carl Ericson | Folke Algotsson | Otto Adelby | Gunnar Olram | Asbjørn Toms Larsen | Yngve Nyqvist | Frithiof Hedvall | Richard Lindström | Victor Thorén | John Sandling | Nils Hultgren | Erik Johansson | David Erikson | Estery Ericsson | John Hilke | Manetta Ryberg | Eric Magnusson | Oscar Åberg | Alice Müller | Åke Brodin | Knut Frankman | Gottfrid Holde | Axel Lagerberg | Helge Karlsson | Hugo Tranberg | Oscar Törnblom