Den starkaste is a 1929 Swedish silent drama film directed by and Alf Sjöberg and starring Bengt Djurberg, Anders Henrikson and Gösta Gustafson.Gustafsson p.89 It was Sjöberg's debut film as a director. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios and on location in Norway. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde.
Lindblom was inspired by a 1920 expedition to Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen in Svalbard to develop a film about the lives of people living in the Arctic circle. The film, which was reported to be Svensk Filmindustri's fourth production of the year, involved a directorial collaboration between Lindblom and Sjöberg, the latter an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Lindblom and Sjöberg co-wrote the script. On 22 May 1929, the production departed Stockholm by train for Narvik and Tromsø to begin a planned two-month filming expedition.
Cast Bengt Djurberg as Gustaf Anders Henrikson as Ole Gösta Gustafson as Jens as Ingeborg Larsen Kare Pederson as Kare as Larsen Maria Röhr as Grandmother Sivert Brækemo as Olsen
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Bibliography Gustafsson, Tommy. Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films. McFarland, 2014. Kwiatkowski, Aleksander. Swedish Film Classics: A Pictorial Survey of 25 Films from 1913 to 1957. Courier Dover Publications, 1983.
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