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The Phantom Carriage, originally titled Körkarlen, is a Swedish silent drama, horror, and fantasy film directed by Victor Sjöström. The cast includes Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Concordia Selander, and Tore Svennberg. Selma Lagerlöf wrote the screenplay, adapting her own work Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!, while Charles Magnusson served as producer. Julius Jaenzon handled cinematography for the black-and-white production, which was created by SF Studios.
The film has a runtime of 107 to 108 minutes and is set during the New Year. It was distributed by SF Studios and Netflix, with additional availability on the Criterion Channel and IndieFlix. The movie holds an IMDb rating of 8.0 from 15,311 votes, a TMDb average of 7.772, and a review score of 100%. Jonathan Richman is listed as the composer. The work is in the public domain and is available via video on demand in a 4:3 aspect ratio.
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7.8An 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.
Cast
- Victor Sjöström as David Holm
- Hilda Borgström as Mrs. Holm
- Tore Svennberg as Georges
- Astrid Holm as Sister Edit
- Concordia Selander as Edit's Mother
- Lisa Lundholm as Sister Maria
Themes
- new year's eve
- based on novel or book
- fight
- poison
- cemetery
- phantom
- flashback
- consumerism
- dying wish
- alcoholic
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Ratings
IMDb
8/10
15,311 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
- Year
- 1921
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Rated
- Not Rated
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Victor Sjöström
- Screenplay by
- Victor Sjöström
- Based on
- Körkarlen , by Selma Lagerlöf
- Produced by
- Charles Magnusson
- Starring
- Victor Sjöström Hilda Borgström Tore Svennberg
- Cinematography
- Julius Jaenzon
- Edited by
- Eugen Hellman
- Distributed by
- AB Svensk Filmindustri
- Release dates
- 1 January 1921 ( 1921-01-01 ) (Sweden) 1 February 1922 ( 1922-02-01 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 107 minutes
- Country
- Sweden
- Languages
- Silent film Swedish intertitles
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Based on
- Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
- Director
- Victor Sjöström
- Screenwriter
- Selma Lagerlöf
- Composer
- Jonathan Richman
- Producer
- Charles Magnusson
- Production company
- SF Studios
- Cinematographer
- Julius Jaenzon
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 278865
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Svennberg och Sjöström.jpg
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- Commons category
- Körkarlen (1921 film)
- publication date
- 1922-06-04
- title
- Körkarlen
- after a work by
- Selma Lagerlöf
- distributed by
- Netflix
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- copyright status
- public domain
- set during recurring event
- New Year
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 100%
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Encyclopedic overview
The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen, literally "The Wagoner") 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 Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, and Astrid Holm.
The Phantom Carriage was released in Scandinavia on New Year's Day 1921. The following year, Metro Pictures Corporation re-edited and released the film in the United States under the title The Stroke of Midnight; it was known as Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! in the United Kingdom.
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