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Scandinavian RealismFilm 9 of 19
Gunnar Hede's Saga
Gunnar Hedes saga
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Stiller, Svensk Filmindustri, 1923, from Lagerlöf. Gunnar Hede (Einar Hanson) would rather play the violin than run the family reindeer business; after his father's death he is pushed north, is hurt in a stampede, and comes home with his mind gone. A neighbor's daughter tries to call him back through music. Only an incomplete print survives, which SFI and Silent Era both note. What is left is Hanson in the snow and a herd that will not take direction. Stiller was a year from Gösta Berling.
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A reindeer herd Stiller could not direct and did not need to, and a man who comes home from the stampede with his mind gone. Incomplete, and the missing footage is part of the experience. Watch Hanson in the snow: the landscape working on a body until it breaks.
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