Glomdalsbruden 1926

The film “The Bride from Glomdal“ was filmed by Carl Theodor Dreyer based on the novel of the same name by the classic of Norwegian literature Jakob Brad Bull (1853 - 1930). Bulla’s novel is an example of a peasant patriarchal idyll, the peaks of which were the works of Nobel laureates B. Björnson “Syunneve Solbaken“ and K. Hamsun “Juices of the earth“ (in Russian translation: “Fruits of the earth“). In these works, the passions raging under the crust of northern restraint are pacified and brought to harmony through hard but honest work, loyalty to tradition and the word of God. The young boy Tore Broten returns to his homestead on the banks of the Glomma River, where his father and mother are waiting for him.