{"id":22053,"date":"2012-01-30T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22053"},"modified":"2020-12-25T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:05:34","slug":"gosta-berlings-saga-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22053","title":{"rendered":"Gosta Berlings Saga\/Story of Gosta Berling, The \/ Legend of Gosta Berling, The \/ Atonement of Gosta Berling, The (1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Life must be lived; one has to move on!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berlings-Saga-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berlings-Saga-Poster-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berlings-Saga-Poster-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berlings-Saga-Poster-89x128.jpg 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berlings-Saga-Poster.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 19th century Sweden, a deposed minister named Gosta Berling (Lars Hanson) goes to live as a knight on a country estate, and falls in doomed love with a variety of women.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greta Garbo Films<\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Morality Police<\/li>\n<li>Scandinavian Films<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this &#8220;adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gosta_Berlings_Saga\">Selma Lagerl\u00f6f&#8217;s epic novel<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; co-written and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mauritz_Stiller\">Mauritz Stiller<\/a> &#8212; represents &#8220;the most ambitious and famous work of Sweden&#8217;s golden silent era&#8221;, and is &#8220;perhaps best known for the performance given by [a] young Greta Garbo&#8221; (who would soon head to Hollywood, and lose quite a bit of weight). However, while it&#8217;s &#8220;a lovely film to look at&#8221;, with the &#8220;outdoor scenes&#8230; especially effective&#8221;, the storyline itself is not very compelling: overstuffed with narrative threads, and far too clearly an adaptation of an epic novel, we&#8217;re never really invested in the (supposed) central concern of Berling&#8217;s redemption. Instead, we&#8217;re too busy trying to keep track of countless subplots and characters &#8212; the most intriguing of whom is a middle-aged noblewoman with a tragic love story of her own (played with emotive expression by Gerda Lundqvist). Film fanatics will be interested to note that Garbo&#8217;s introspective acting style is already in clear evidence here; as Peary notes, she &#8220;handles herself nicely, playing &#8212; as she would in Hollywood &#8212; a woman who is controlled by her heart&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gerda Lundqvist as Margaretha<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Lundqvist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Lundqvist.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Lundqvist.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Lundqvist-128x91.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Lundqvist-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greta Garbo as Elizabeth<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Garbo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Garbo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Garbo.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Garbo-128x91.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Garbo-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The burning of Ekeby<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Fire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Fire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Fire.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Fire-128x91.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Fire-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fine on-location cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Landscape.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Landscape.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"448\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Landscape.png 624w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Landscape-128x91.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Gosta-Berling-Landscape-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it will certainly be of interest to silent film fans, and\/or fans of Scandinavian cinema. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0014109\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/silent-volume.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/saga-of-gosta-berling-1924.html\">Silent Volume Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slantmagazine.com\/film\/review\/the-saga-of-gosta-berling\/2192\">Slant Magazine&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitallyobsessed.com\/displaylegacy.php?ID=8618\">Digitally Obsessed Review (spoilers alert)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Life must be lived; one has to move on!&#8221; Synopsis: In 19th century Sweden, a deposed minister named Gosta Berling (Lars Hanson) goes to live as a knight on a country estate, and falls in doomed love with a variety of women. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Greta Garbo Films Historical Drama Morality Police Scandinavian Films Silent Films Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary notes that this &#8220;adaptation of Selma Lagerl\u00f6f&#8217;s epic novel&#8221; &#8212; co-written and directed by Mauritz Stiller &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22053\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22053"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59516,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22053\/revisions\/59516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}