1. The Phantom Carriage - SF Studios
The silent film, a dramatization of Selma Lagerlöf's novel from 1912, is widely seen as the pinnacle of the career of the great star Victor Sjöström.
In 2012, Sweden’s leading film review magazine, FLM, asked its readers to vote for the best Swedish film of all time. The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen), released in 1921, was the winner.The silent film, a dramatization of Selma Lagerlöf’s novel from 1912, is widely seen as the pinnacle of the career of the great star Victor Sjöström, as both actor and director. Even without dialogue, Sjöström and a cast that included Astrid Holm, Hilda Borgström and Tore Svennberg created and conveyed a humanitarian message and drew the audience into the drama. There are a number of notable details about the film. It was the first to be filmed at the brand-new studio in Råsunda during the summer of 1920 and it was assigned production number 1.
2. The Phantom Carriage (Korkarlen) 1921 - The Devil's Manor
... based on the novel 'Korkarlen' by Selma Lagerlof. (Alternate Titles: The Stroke of Midnight [USA], Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness [UK], The Phantom Chariot).
Director: Victor Sjöström "Its driver is no ordinary man, but serves a harsh master called Death" Although there's never a...
3. The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
... based on the novel by Selma Lagerlof, The Phantom Carriage, 1922. ... The Phantom Carriage, originally titled Körkarlen or "Driver," begins on New ...
In this silent film, fear of a terrible curse prompts a dying man to try atoning for his sins.
4. THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) presented by Silents, Please! STL
The story, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, concerns an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well (Sjöström himself) who is shown the error of his ...
BUY TICKETS The last person to die on New Year’s Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death’s chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So …
5. Kennington Bioscope presents The Phantom Carriage (1921)
May 22, 2024 · Based on the 1912 novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen) by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. In the film, Sjöström plays a drunkard named ...
Directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, this 1921 ghost story is considered by many to be one of the first horror films.
6. The Phantom Carriage - San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Known in his native Sweden as Körkarlen (which translates as “the driver” or “the coachman”), the film is based on a 1912 novella by the writer Selma Lagerlöf.
There are constants in the work of Victor Sjöström, a major figure in film history both behind and in front of the camera. One is the seeming always present sense of death. Sometimes, death might come in the form of disease or a sudden, violent mishap; or sometimes, a character in a film might depict death, or in the case of The Phantom Carriage, death’s servant. At the conclusion of most all his films, viewers are confronted by tragedy, some form of resignation, or noble self-sacrifice.
7. The Phantom Carriage | Eye Filmmuseum
Renowned silent film based on the book by Selma Lagerlöf (1858 - 1940), the author of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Director Sjöström is convincing as a ...
Sixteen composers composed a new electro-acoustic score for this groundbreaking silent film; Ingmar Bergman’s favourite. This is the premiere of that new score played live by the Metropole Orkest [orchestra].
8. The Phantom Carriage (1921) (review) - Project MUSE
Dec 13, 2012 · Körkarlen, literally The Coachman, was the first production of the newly formed Svensk Filmindustri, which had been created through a merger of ...
Decades prior to his iconic role as Dr. Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 Wild Strawberries, Victor Sjöström played the lead as one of the greatest film directors of Sweden’s golden age of silent cinema. Between 1912 and 1922, he directed, and often starred in, more than forty Swedish films, including Terje Vigen (A Man There Was; 1917), Klostret I Sendomir (The Monastery of Sendomir; 1919), and his 1921 masterwork Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage), which has been digitally restored and released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection.
9. The Phantom Carriage (1921) - Letterboxd
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock ...
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
10. The Phantom Carriage - Senses of Cinema
Oct 11, 2010 · This was a background to some extent shared by Selma Lagerlöf, author of the novel Körkarlen (3) – the source of Sjöström's adaptation – and ...
11. The Phantasmagoric Phantom Carriage - PopMatters
Such is the case of The Phantom Carriage (aka Körkarlen, 1921), a Swedish production which arguably is one of the greatest films ever made. Indeed, this ...
It sounds unbelievable, but some experts estimate that about 85 to 90 percent of all the films made during the silent era are presumed to be lost.
12. The Phantom Carriage | film by Sjörström [1921] - Britannica
His film Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage, 1921) was one of Bergman's favourites and a major influence on Wild Strawberries, which was Sjöström's final ...
Other articles where The Phantom Carriage is discussed: Wild Strawberries: His film Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage, 1921) was one of Bergman’s favourites and a major influence on Wild Strawberries, which was Sjöström’s final performance. Sjöström won much praise for bringing empathy to a character who has spent his life as a cold and insulated person. Bergman later said,…
13. The Phantom Carriage - Rotten Tomatoes
In all, The Phantom Carriage is enthralling and really cool for 1921, even before Nosferatu! Content collapsed. Rated ...
On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man (Victor Sjöström) to look back at his wasted life.
14. Körkarlen (1921) - European Film Star Postcards
Victor Sjöström's poetic and touching Körkarlen/The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921) is considered by many film critics the best Swedish film of all ...
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15. The Phantom Carriage (1921) - film freedonia
Oct 28, 2012 · Körkarlen Director/Screenwriter/Actor: Victor Sjöstrom By Roderick Heath The Phantom Carriage has a power which almost defies description, ...
Körkarlen Director/Screenwriter/Actor: Victor Sjöstrom By Roderick Heath The Phantom Carriage has a power which almost defies description, a sense of an overwhelming darkness crowding the edges of …
16. The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921) - CentAUR
Dec 8, 2015 · The reputation of The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) as one of the major films of Swedish silent cinema is in some respects securely established.
The reputation of The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) as one of the major films of Swedish silent cinema is in some respects securely established. Yet the film has attracted surprisingly little detailed discussion. It may be that its most striking stylistic features have deflected or discouraged closer scrutiny. Tom Gunning, for instance, in making the case for Sjöström’s Masterman, argues that ‘Körkarlen wears its technique on its sleeve, overtly displays its unquestionable mastery of superimposition and complex narrative structure. Mästerman tucks its mastery of editing and composition up its sleeve, so to speak’. This article makes an argument for a different evaluation of The Phantom Carriage, bringing a critical and interpretative understanding of the film’s style into conversation with the historical accounts of film form which predominate in the scholarship around silent cinema. It suggests that the film achieves ‘mastery of editing and composition’ with a flexibility and fluidity in the construction of dramatic space that is in itself remarkable for its period, but that Sjöström’s achievements extend well beyond his handling of film space. Specifically, it discusses a segment which is in several respects at the heart of the film: the first meeting between the two central characters, David Holm (Victor Sjöström) and Sister Edit (Astrid Holm); it spans the film’s exact mid-point; and at almost twelve and a half minutes it is the longest uninterrupted passage to take p...
17. Movie Review – The Phantom Carriage (1921)
May 9, 2016 · ... Phantom Carriage (1921) Adapted from the novel Körkarlen (1912) by Nobel prize-winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, The Phantom Carriage (1921) ...
This review is part of the A Play of Light and Shadow: Horror in Silent Cinema Series Movie Review – The Phantom Carriage (1921) Adapted from the novel Körkarlen (1912) by Nobel prize-winning…
