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The Saga of Gösta Berling (Swedish: Gösta Berlings saga) is a 1924 Swedish romantic drama film co-written and directed by Mauritz Stiller and released by AB Svensk FAB Svensk Filmindustri, starring Lars Hanson, Gerda Lundequist and Greta Garbo in her domestic film breakthrough.
Gösta Berling's Saga (Swedish: Gösta Berlings saga [ˈjœ̂sːta ˈbæ̂ːɭɪŋs ˈsɑ̂ːɡa]), also known as The Story of Gösta Berling or The Saga of Gösta Berling, is the debut novel of Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891.
- Selma Lagerlöf, Greta Anderson, Lillie Tudeer
- 1891
The Saga of Gösta Berling: Directed by Mauritz Stiller. With Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson. A drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity.
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- Drama, Romance
- Mauritz Stiller
- 1928-10-27
The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power struggle with the richest woman in the province. The book has a Faustian theme revolving around a possible deal with the Devil.
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- Paperback
The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom. A defrocked minister, Gösta Berling finds a home at Ekeby, an ironworks estate that also houses and assortment of eccentric veterans of the Napoleanic Wars.
- Paperback
Sep 29, 2009 · A Penguin Classic. In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo into stardom.
- Selma Lagerlof
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The Saga of Gösta Berling is a story set in the 1820s about Gösta Berling, a religious priest who is cast out by the church for his drinking problem and poor conduct as a man of the cloth. On the day of his judgment, believers gather at the church determined to bring him down.
