The Phantom Carriage Sjstrm wrote directed and starred in this silent movie that retells a legend about the last man to die on New Year's Eve. When he gets drunk and suffers a terrible accident Sjstrm is confronted with the Carriage of the Dead and forced to relive his life so that he can see how alcoholism destroyed all that he once held dear. The Image Makers depicts an imaginary meeting between four great figures in Swedish cultural history: Selma Lagerlf world-famous story-teller and Nobel Prize laureate Viktor Sjstrm one of Sweden's greatest film directors... and actors of all time Julius Jaenzon legendary and brilliant film photographer and Tora Teje one of the leading Swedish actresses of the 1890s. One autumn day in 1920 they gather together to look at a provisional version of Sjstrm's silent film Krkarlen based upon one of Selma Lagerlf's most famous novels. [show more]
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A double bill of cinematic legends - Victor Sjostrom's 1921 classic, followed by Ingmar Bergman's dramatised tribute. Directed by pioneering Swedish film-maker Victor Sjostrom, 'The Phantom Carriage' is a horror story relating the legend that whoever is the last person to die on New Year's Eve will be destined to drive the Phantom Carriage, collecting dead souls for a year. When a drunkard is found at the stroke of midnight, the victim of a vicious fight, he is forced to relive his past to see how he and those around him have been destroyed by his selfish and destructive ways. Bergman's film 'The Image Makers' is a tribute to his mentor and to the film which inspired him to become a film-maker. Set in the 1920s at the Swedish film studios, the great silent director Sjostrom is nearing completion of The Phantom Carriage, a cinematic adaptation of a popular novel, and has invited the book's authoress, along with the film's leading actress, to look at some early scenes. But, when both women claim to know the story and the characters best, a psychological battle arises which threatens to destabilise the whole project.
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