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His Lord's Will (1919)

His Lord's Will (1919)

Comedy
Release Date: 1919, November 3
Directors: Victor Sjöström
Countries: Sweden
Cast: Emil Fjellström, Semmy Friedmann, Josua Bengtson, Olof Ås, Sigurd Wallén, Sture Baude, Georg Blickingberg, Greta Almroth, Carl Browallius, Karl Mantzius, Nils Aréhn, Augusta Lindberg

Overview:

A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.

Keywords:

silent film