• Victor Seastrom: The Divine Woman, 1928


Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 3 PM.


Jon Wengström’s Lecture on Victor Sjöström



Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 3 PM.

  • Illustrated Lecture
    Jon Wengström

    Jon Wengström is Senior Curator of the Archival Film Collections at the Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, and an expert on Swedish silent cinema. He received the 2018 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Award on behalf of the Swedish Film Institute.

Join us for a ninety-minute illustrated lecture that puts Victor Sjöström and his films into context. Film archivist Jon Wengström, a leading authority on Swedish silent cinema and Sjöström in particular, discusses Sjöström’s career—both as a director and as an actor. Several films made in the mid-1910s (Ingeborg Holm, The Price of Betrayal, A Man There Was) will be shown in digital excerpts. Additional clips, including the following rare 35mm prints and fragments as noted below, will also be presented.

Films in this Screening

Tagning Mästerman
(Shooting Mästerman)

Sweden, 1920

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 2 mins
  • 18fps
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

Ett besök hos Selma Lagerlöf
(A Visit at Selma Lagerlöf’s)

Sweden, 1926

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Swedish intertitles
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W/Tinted
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 6 mins
  • 20fps
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

The Divine Woman (fragment 1)

Victor Seastrom, United States, 1928

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Russian intertitles
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 10 mins
  • 22fps
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

The Divine Woman (fragment 2)

Victor Seastrom, United States, 1928

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Swedish intertitles
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 1 mins
  • 22fps
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

När kärleken dödar
(Mortal Love)

Mauritz Stiller, Sweden, 1913

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Swedish intertitles
  • with English electronic titling
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • Silent
  • 2 mins
  • 18fps
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

Bakomfilm Smultronstället
(The Making of Wild Strawberries)

Sweden, 1957

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • DCP
  • 17 mins
source
  • Swedish Film Institute

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