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1921
The Phantom Carriage is a 1921 Swedish silent film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, based on the 1912 novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen) by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. In the film, Sjöström plays a drunkard named David Holm who, on the night of New Year's Eve, is compelled by the ghostly driver of Death's carriage to reflect on his past mistakes. Alongside Sjöström, the film's cast includes…
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Selma Lagerlöf is the greatest name of 20th Century Swedish literature. Its reputation stems not only from quality and influence of her work or the fact that she was the first woman to get Nobel Prize for Literature. Her works also served as basis for some of the early classics of Swedish cinema. One of those was 1912 novel *Körkarlen* (“Coachman”, published in English-speaking countries as *Thy Soul Shall Bear Witn…More