Prästen, also released with English titles of Saints and (Their) Sorrows and The Clergyman, among others, is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.
Cast Egil Eide as the priest Clara Wieth as Maria, a tenant farmer's daughter William Larsson as Maria's father, a tenant farmer Richard Lund as a landowner Justus Hagman as older priest Carlo Wieth as Frans
Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Reception A reviewer in Aftonbladet commented that the film was "splendidly filmed" (flott inspelad) and raised the performances of the male and female leads, Egil Eide and Clara Wieth. The film's English release was praised in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, with the reviewer commenting that despite a serious subject matter, the film was enjoyable and compelling throughout.
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