DVD
The phantom carriage = Körkarlen
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
Silent film; Swedish intertitles with English subtitles.
Performers
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : si., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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 says the legend that drives this film, which involves an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel Körkarlen by Selma Lagerlöf.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1921.
Special features: two scores, one by Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL ; audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg ; interview with Ingmar Bergman, excerpted from the 1981 documentary "Victor Sjöström : a portrait" ; "The Bergman connection," an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on the film's influence on Bergman ; footage of the construction of the Rasunda studio where "The phantom carriage" was the inaugural production.