Victor Sjöström – MRQE

A Lady to Love

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Middle-aged Napa Valley grape-grower Tony posts a marriage proposal to San Francisco waitress Lena enclosing a photo of his handsome younger brother Buck. When she gets there she overlooks his duplicity and marries him. Then she falls in love with Buck.

The Divine Woman

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier’s obligations? A lost film.

The Tower of Lies

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.

He Who Gets Slapped

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.

Name the Man

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Collister, becomes the deemster on his father’s death, and is forced to try Bessie for killing her illegitimate child.

Under the Red Robe

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke’s castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke’s wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke’s sister, which complicates everything.

Ingmarssönerna

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf’s book Jerusalem.

Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla’s farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family’s starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland’s mountains.

Dödskyssen

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.

Ingeborg Holm

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After Ingeborg Holm’s husband becomes sick and dies, the family’s small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.