Markens grøde
After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.
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"Commoners have always had complicated lives; they've had to work for what they get and suffer many adversities and woes in the process. They have nothing in common with aristocrats who enjoy the good life without doing anything at all. That particular and peculiar fight for life is very well depicted in the Norwegian silent film "Markens Grode" (1921) wherein farmers Herr Isak and Frau Inger ( Herr Armund Rydland and Frau Karen Poulsen ) live a rough life in a dry and lonely moor in the North of Norway. When the third child of Inger and Isak is born with a hare lip, Inger decid..."
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The movie had been lost for half a century until a 60 minutes copy was found in New York in 1971. Twenty years later, in 1991, a more complete version appeared in the Netherlands, where the movie was restored one year later. The second and most recent restoration was undergone in Norway in 2009, after which the film was released on DVD. The present edition is a little more than 90 minutes long, but there're 20, or even 30 minutes of footage that are still missing.
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After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.