“This is without doubt the most beautiful film in the world!” declared French director and critic Louis Delluc, struck by director Victor Sjöström and cinematographer Julius Jaenzon’s stunning landscape photography. Expansive landscapes contrast with claustrophobic interiors in Sjöström’s adaptation of Jóhann Sigurjónsson’s play. The good-hearted outlaw Berg-Ejvind—pursued for stealing a sheep to keep his family from starvation—finds his way to the farm of a wealthy young widow, Halla. They fall in love, but when the law closes in, Halla must forsake everything to follow him into a precipitous future in an unforgiving wilderness.