The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar

Ivan Hedqvist, 1921, from Heine's poem: a mother walks her grieving son to Kevelaer to offer a wax heart to the Madonna. Svensk Filmindustri, locations in the Rhineland, intertitles from the verses. It is a pilgrimage film that treats a miracle as a walk, and melancholy as a diagnosis the shrine may not accept.