Gunnar Hede's Saga

Gunnar Hede's Saga

70 mins | Drama, Family | Jan. 1, 1923

Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.

Gunnar Hede's Saga

70 mins | Drama, Family | Jan. 1, 1923

Gunnar Hede's Saga
Gunnar Hede is raised by a strict mother, who wants him to become respectable to match his family’s wealth. He is more interested in his grandfather, who started as an itinerant violin player, but got rich by leading a herd of wild reindeer south to market. He falls for a violinist working with a married couple of traveling performers and renounces his fortune to go with them. He then tries to earn a fortune by driving reindeer to market, but it doesn’t work out and he goes insane. He is finally restored to sanity by the violinist when she returns with the performers.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Svenska Biografteatern AB
Original title Gunnar Hedes saga
Directors Mauritz Stiller
Writers Selma Lagerlöf, Mauritz Stiller

Cast

Einar Hanson

as Gunnar Hede

Mary Johnson

as Ingrid

Hugo Björne

as Mr. Hede

Pauline Brunius

as Mrs. Hede

Stina Berg

as Mrs. Blomgren

Adolf Olschansky

as Blomgren

Gustav Aronson

as Bailiff

Julia Cederblad

as Auktionsspekulant

Gösta Hillberg

as Lawyer

Lotten Olsson

as Auktionsspekulant

Ingeborg Strandin

as Tjänstekvinna på munkhyttan

Thecla Åhlander

as Stava

Albert Christiansen

as Gunnar Hede as child