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.
Victor Sjöström | David Holm | |
Hilda Borgstrom | Mrs. Holm | |
Tore Svennberg | Georges | |
Astrid Holm | Edit | |
Concordia Selander | Edit's Mother | |
Lisa Lundholm | Maria | |
Tor Weijden | Gustafsson | |
Einar Axelsson | David's Brother | |
Olof Ås | Driver | |
Nils Aréhn | Prison Chaplain | |
Simon Lindstrand | David's Companion | |
Nils Elffors | David's Companion | |
Algot Gunnarsson | Worker | |
Hildur Lithman | Worker's Wife | |
John Ekman | Police Constable | |
Edvin Adolphson | Man at the Inn | |
Elof Ahrle | Young Man | |
Emmy Albiin | Tuberculosis Patient | |
Anna-Lisa Baude | Salvation Army Soldier | |
Josua Bengtson | Gambler | |
Helga Brofeldt | Waitress | |
Julia Cæsar | ||
Mona Geijer-Falkner | Waitress | |
Carl Harald | Man at the Inn | |
Arthur Natorp | Salvation Army Soldier |
Director | Victor Sjöström | |
Writer | Selma Lagerlöf, Victor Sjöström | |
Producer | Charles Magnusson | |
Photography | Julius Jaenzon |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Feb 22, 2019 21:28:48 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:55 |
Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
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Audio Tracks | SIL [English] |
Distributor | Criterion |
Edition Release Date | Sep 27, 2011 |
Bought with Beth as gift for my birthday, at Barnes and Nobel 2/22/19
SPECIAL FEATURES
New digital restoration, done in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute
Two scores, one by Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL (Stephen O’Malley and Peter Rehberg)
Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg
Interview with Ingmar Bergman, excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner
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 Råsunda studio where The Phantom Carriage was the inaugural production
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg
New cover by Christopher Brian King