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The Outlaw and His Wife

Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru

1918

A mysterious farmhand and a widowed Icelandic landowner fall in love, but when he is exposed as a thief on the run, the two flee into the mountains to live as outlaws, their bond tested by the brutal wilderness. Victor Sjöström's silent epic.

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A canonical Swedish silent adaptation of an Icelandic play and outlaw legend.

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