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The Outlaw and His Wife

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A stranger who calls himself Kári comes to a farm in the north country. He is hired as a laborer, and the widowed farm owner Halla becomes infatuated with him. The local bailiff, who wants to marry Halla, becomes jealous of Kári. Another man tells the bailiff that Kári is in fact a thief and fugitive
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Eyvind and Halla escape into the hostile winter. Some time later, they are holed up in a small cabin with no food. They are crazed with hunger. Eyvind considers abandoning Halla but does not. When Eyvind goes for firewood, Halla wanders out of the cabin and freezes in the snow. Eyvind finds her and
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is also infused with a kind of pantheism and puritanical morality that came to mark Swedish cinema. As social renegades the lovers feel their transgressions are subject to the laws of an indifferent universe and when cornered by their pursuers, Halla makes a personal sacrifice that reflects an Old
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However, around when the girl is three, Arnes confesses his loneliness and love for Halla. Halla does not share his feelings, and he decides to leave them. As he is walking away, he sees a group of men approaching and runs back to warn Eyvind and Halla. The men arrive at the same time, and a fight
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named Eyvind. Kári at first denies being Eyvind and then defeats the bailiff in a wrestling contest as a measure of his sincerity. However, when Halla proposes marriage, he confesses the truth of what happened in his earlier impoverished life as Eyvind.
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Testament sense of vindication... Film critic David Thomson noted a recurring quality in Sjöström's best work of "wild feelings bursting through moral and social inhibition" and that is an apt summation of the universe of
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When the bailiff returns with others to arrest Eyvind, he and Halla abandon the farm for the bare, cold highlands, where they live for many happy years. They have a baby girl and are accompanied by their friend Arnes.
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The film was groundbreaking for its portrayal of wild nature. It was shot in two sessions in the spring and late summer 1917, with
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Jeff Stafford shared the following thoughts in an essay on the film written for the 2013
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ensues. In fear of capture, Halla throws her child off the cliff into the river below.
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Victor Sjöström
Sam Ask
Jóhann Sigurjónsson
Charles Magnusson
Edith Erastoff
Julius Jaenzon
Silent film
intertitles
Swedish
silent film
Victor Sjöström
Jóhann Sigurjónsson
Eyvind of the Hills
Åre
Abisko
highlands of Iceland
Victor Sjöström
Edith Erastoff
John Ekman
Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Artur Rolén
Nils Ahrén
William Larsson
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
"Progressive Silent Film List: The Outlaw and His Wife"
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Comment and summary
Swedish Film Institute
"The Outlaw and His Wife"

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