The Image Makers
Nov 15 2000
•2h 39m
•Drama, TV Movie
Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage. Director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film in the presence of the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and the young actress Tora Teje. The meeting between Lagerlöf, an older woman and world-famous author, and a young and talented actress becomes the focal point of the drama.
Cast
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Lennart Hjulström
Victor Sjöström
Anita Björk
Selma Lagerlöf
Elin Klinga
Tora Teje
Carl Magnus Dellow
Julius Jaenzon
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