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Markens grøde
Also known as [Growth of the Soil]
(1921) Norway
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Gunnar Sommerfeldt

Cast: Amund Rydland [Isak], Karen Thalbitzer (Karen Poulsen) [Inger], Ragna Wettergreen [Oline], Gunnar Sommerfeldt [Geissler, lensmannen], Inge Sommerfeldt [Barbro], Almar Bjoernefjell [Elesius, en ung bonde], Sigurd Berg Bruland [Brede Olsen, en bondegutt], Siljusson av Terna [Os-Anders], Sivert Eliassen [Sivert], Ernst Vaumund [Aksel Strøm], Rolf Christensen, Sigurd Køvatn, Sesse Schanke

[?] Christiana Film and/or Norrøna Film? production; distributed by [?] Christiana Film and/or Norrøna Film? / Scenario by Gunnar Sommerfeldt, from the novel Markens grøde by Knut Hamsun. / Cinematography by George Schnéevoigt. Music score by Leif Halvorsen. / Released 2 December 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Possibly the first feature film produced in Norway. The film was released in the USA by Film Guild Cinema on 28 September 1929. The film was nearly completely restored from a print recovered in New York and another held by a Dutch film archive.

Drama.

Survival status: Incomplete prints exist in the Norsk Filminstitutt film archive [35mm restoration positives].

Current rights holder: (unknown) [Norway]; Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Fishermen - Sailors

Listing updated: 9 August 2010.

References: Bardèche-History p. 264 : Website-IMDb.

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