1924 · drama · romance
The Saga of Gösta Berling
Directed by Mauritz Stiller3h 26m1924
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Our read: The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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