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Scandinavian RealismFilm 19 of 19
A Man There Was
Terje Vigen
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On a Norwegian coast under the British blockade of 1809, sailor Terje Vigen rows to Denmark for food and is captured on the return. Years later he comes home to find his wife and child dead of hunger. Living as a recluse by the sea, he one night spots a wrecked English yacht whose captain is the officer who once took him prisoner. Faced with the man's wife and child in the water, Terje must choose vengeance or mercy. Sjöström's adaptation of Ibsen's poem made the sea itself a principal character.
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Ibsen's poem, and the sea as the lead. Terje rows to Denmark for food, comes home to a dead family, and years later has the officer's wife and child in the water in front of him. Sjöström shot on real water and let the choice take its time.
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