Original title: Terje Vigen
AKA: A Man There Was
Year: 1917
Runtime: 52 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Silent
Subtitles: English inter-titles
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Sjöström
Cast:
Victor Sjöström … Terje Vigen
Edith Erastoff … The Lady
August Falck … The Lord
Bergliot Husberg … Mrs. Vigen
Plot/Synopsis:
The story is set in the early 19th century and may may remind some viewers of the tale of Enoch Arden (which had supplied the plot of one of D.W. Griffith’s strongest Biograph dramas back in 1911). Terje Vigen is a fisherman who quits the seafaring life to marry and start a family in Grimstad, a coastal village. But the Napoleonic wars sweep Europe, and when the British navy sets up a blockade of his island the threat of starvation becomes a reality. Rather than see his wife and daughter starve Terje attempts to run the blockade and return with food. He almost succeeds, but the British spot him in his small boat, give chase, and eventually catch him. Dragged onto the deck of the British frigate he begs for mercy, but the Captain coldly ignores his pleas and has him imprisoned. Five years later Terje is released and returns to his village to find strangers living in his home: his wife and daughter died of starvation. Years pass, and Terje dreams only of vengeance. When a yacht founders off the coast he rescues the owner with his wife and child, and recognizes him as the British captain who denied him mercy years earlier…
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