Sir Arne's Treasure

Few relationships between a writer and a film industry have been as fruitful as the relationship between Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf and the nascent Swedish film industry in the first decades of the 20th century. Many of Lagerlöf’s novels were adapted into films that became big hits, and some are even a century later highly regarded as classics of the silent era. One of those films with a high reputa…