Bruce Loeb on Piano (Den Starkaste)."After seeing two films of Sergei Eisenstein° (Sjöberg)entered the world of cinema in 1929 with passionate convictions. Hisfirst work, The Strongest, was the last important Swedish silent movie.One of the great debut films, at no point does it appear the work of anovice. This remarkably composed and photographed romance and survivalsaga set in the world of seal and bear hunters of the Greenland Seamakes Flaherty's Nanook look like a Blackglama ad." (Elliott Stein)Made in collaboration with Axel Lindblom, who directed and photographedthe location work, the film has a strong flavor of documentary whiletelling a fictional tale of Greenland farmers on a seasonal hunt, theirrivalries for dominance and jealousies over love played out in the snowylandscape that is itself a protagonist of the film. Widely praised forits characterizations and the beauty of its images and rhythms, it wouldbe Sjöberg's last film for a decade.