The Monastery of Sendomir
| Klostret i Sendomir | |
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| File:Klostret i Sendomir 1920 film poster.jpg German release poster | |
| Directed by | Victor Sjöström |
| Screenplay by | Victor Sjöström |
| Story by | Franz Grillparzer |
| Cinematography | Henrik Jaenzon |
Release date |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Languages | Silent, Swedish intertitles |
The Monastery of Sendomir (Swedish: Klostret i Sendomir) is a 1920 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on an 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer.[1] It has also been released in the UK as The Secret of the Monastery. A German adaptation of the story The Monastery of Sendomir, directed by Rudolf Meinert, had been released the previous year.
Plot
[edit | edit source]The main part of the film is told in a flashback by a monk to two visiting noblemen on their way to Warsaw in the 17th century. He tells them how a mighty count named Starschensky once ruled Sendomir (Sandomierz), but after an intrigue in which his wife was unfaithful with her own cousin he had to use all his resources to build the monastery where they are now staying. At the end it is revealed that the monk is in fact Starschensky himself.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Tore Svennberg as Count Starschensky
- Tora Teje as Elga
- Richard Lund as Oginsky
- Renée Björling as Dortka
- Albrecht Schmidt as Manager
- Gun Robertson as Starschensky's Daughter
- Erik A. Petschler as Nobleman
- Nils Tillberg as Nobleman
- Gustaf Ranft as Abbot
- Yngwe Nyquist as Servant
- Axel Nilsson as Friar
- Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson as Coal Miner's Wife
- Emil Fjellström as Friar
See also
[edit | edit source]- Confessions of a Monk (1922)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- The Monastery of Sendomir at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- The Monastery of Sendomir at the Swedish Film Institute DatabaseLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- The Monastery of Sendomir available for free download at Internet Archive
- 1920 films
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- 1920 drama films
- Swedish silent feature films
- Swedish black-and-white films
- Films directed by Victor Sjöström
- Films based on short fiction
- Films set in the 17th century
- Films set in Poland
- Films set in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
- Films based on works by Franz Grillparzer
- 1920s Swedish-language films
- Swedish silent drama films
- 1920s Swedish films
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- 1920s Swedish film stubs