A film can be a big hit and even recognised as important by future historians, yet the benefits of its success can be quite different for main people involved. That happened with *The Saga of Gösta Berling*, 1924 period romantic epic directed by Mauritz Stiler, often considered to be the last grand classic of Swedish silent cinema. The film is based on the eponymous 1891 debut novel of Nobel Prize-winning author Sel…

