{"id":20097,"date":"2020-11-24T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it\/?page_id=20097"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T08:00:50","slug":"the-silent-stream-moraenen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it\/en\/the-silent-stream-moraenen\/","title":{"rendered":"MOR\u00c6NEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #009aa5;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>MOR\u00c6NEN <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #009aa5;\">(DK 1924)<\/span><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>(The House of Shadows)<br \/>\nDirected by <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #009aa5;\">Anders Wilhelm Sandberg<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMusic by <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #009aa5;\">Stephen Horne &amp; Elizabeth-Jane Baldry<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/454875457\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1500994616071{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>In a dark and desolate part of northern Norway, the all-powerful local magnate is the harsh and unforgiving Thor Brekan\u00e6s. <\/em><em>In a prologue, he learns that his wife has sought solace in the arms of another and that her son Vasil is not his, unlike the child she now bears. As soon as this child is born, he throws her out and urges her to kill herself, which she does. Twenty-five years later, Brekan\u00e6s still broods over his shame. The second son, Aslak, is an imbecile, cared for by Brekan\u00e6s\u2019s young god-daughter Thora. Brekan\u00e6s has ordered her engagement to his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Swein, the son of a poor tenant farmer whom he has taken under his wing. Vasil returns, having dropped out of law school to become a poet. He and Thora have long been attracted to each other, and Vasil calls off the engagement. Brekan\u00e6s is enraged at the defiance of the bastard he has never accepted or cared for, but before he can act against Vasil, the old man is murdered, his head crushed with a rock in the desolate moraine valley where he goes to scream his rage. Vasil is immediately suspected of having slain the unforgiving patriarch.<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><em>Among the films made in the early 1920s by the Nordisk company in Denmark, only a small number emphasized their \u201cNordicness\u201d. The wild, mountainous setting of\u00a0<\/em>Mor\u00e6nen<em>\u00a0(British title:\u00a0<\/em>The House of Shadows<em>) makes it an important exception, but it is of course set in northern Norway, not Denmark, and thus lacks the national frame found in films from the other Nordic countries. Although it deals with inheritance and intergenerational conflict, a common theme of Nordic rural dramas, it is also different because it does not have any literary prestige attached; it is an original screenplay, written by the prolific Laurids Skands (1885-1934), who was a professional writer of film scripts rather than an established novelist or playwright. Skands had collaborated with the director A. W. Sandberg (1887-1938) on a number of films, including the first three of Nordisk\u2019s four Dickens films. Sandberg was very proud of his work on\u00a0<\/em>Mor\u00e6nen<em>, which was hailed by the Danish press as one of the pinnacles of Danish film art (an estimation which now seems excessive), but the director\u2019s promotion of his own efforts appears to have been the cause of a permanent rupture with Skands, his long-time collaborator.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><em>Comparable films from the neighbouring countries, where the Nordic landscape plays an important role, tend to present it with pride \u2013 infused with grandeur, vitality, and national character; but\u00a0<\/em>Mor\u00e6nen<em>\u00a0presents it as a bleak, dismal wasteland that oppresses the souls of its inhabitants. Only in \u201cthe lands of the sun\u201d \u2013 Italy, presumably \u2013 can love, art, and the human spirit flourish. The intertitles repeatedly invoke the joyless and stony character of the sunless northern lands where the film is set, and the\u00a0<\/em>mise-en-sc\u00e8ne<em>\u00a0supports this. Although Sandberg and his crew travelled to Norway to shoot the exteriors on location, much of the film takes place indoors, the dark timbers and small, often off-screen windows contributing to the claustrophobic atmosphere. Contemporary publicity claimed that the Brekan\u00e6s home was based on a real Norwegian house, carefully measured and copied by Nordisk\u2019s brilliant set designer Carlo Jacobsen; but the house we see in the film, particularly the large central hall with its grand, steep staircase rising into the gloom, seems remarkably gothic in comparison with the low-ceilinged dwellings in other Nordic films. With its patriarchal oppression and murder-mystery plot,\u00a0<\/em>Mor\u00e6nen<em>\u00a0has a strongly melodramatic feel to it, and a piece of music does play a central role: it calms a madman, brings back redemptive memories of a long-lost mother, and resolves the plot. The piece is not specified in the film, but a list of the musical selections accompanying the film at the premi\u00e8re survives, and it is likely that the piece used was the \u201cBerceuse\u201d (1904) of the Finnish composer Armas J\u00e4rnefelt, who wrote the original score for Mauritz Stiller\u2019s masterpiece\u00a0<\/em>S\u00e5ngen om den eldr\u00f6da blomman\/Song of the Scarlet Flower<em>\u00a0(1919).<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><em>The print was made by the Danish Film Museum in 1959 from the original negative, with new titles following the original title lists from Nordisk.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\">Magnus Rosborn, Casper Tybjerg\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><i>(Programme note first published in the Giornate del Cinema Muto catalogue 2017)<\/i><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1500995099330{padding-right: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1606204532539{padding-right: 5% !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}&#8221;]<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #038891;\"><strong>MOR\u00c6NEN <\/strong>(DK 1924)<br \/>\n(The House of Shadows)<br \/>\ndir: Anders Wilhelm Sandberg<br \/>\nscen: Laurids Skands.<br \/>\nphotog: Louis Larsen, Chresten J\u00f8rgensen.<br \/>\nscg\/des: Carlo Jacobsen.<br \/>\ncast: Peter Nielsen (Thor Brekan\u00e6s, high sheriff), Karen Caspersen (Gunhild, sua moglie\/his wife), Emanuel Gregers (Vasil Brekan\u00e6s), Peter Malberg (Aslak Brekan\u00e6s), Karina Bell (Thora, la figlioccia di Thor\/Thor\u2019s god-daughter), Charles Wilken (Gudmund, affittuario\/tenant farmer), Sigurd Langberg (Swein Gudmundsson, suo figlio\/his son).<br \/>\nprod: Nordisk Films Kompagni.<br \/>\nuscita\/rel: 25.02.1924.<br \/>\ncopia\/copy: 35mm, 2346 m., 103\u2032 (20 fps); did\/titles: DAN.<br \/>\nfonte\/source: Det Danske Filminstitut, K\u00f8benhavn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"color: #038891; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Film shown at the 36th Pordenone Silent Film Festival (section \u201cScandinavian Cinema: The Swedish Challenge\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; color: #038891;\"><a style=\"color: #038891;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it\/abbreviazioni-key-to-abbreviations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key to Abbreviations<\/span><\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]MOR\u00c6NEN (DK 1924) (The House of Shadows) Directed by Anders Wilhelm Sandberg Music by Stephen Horne &amp; Elizabeth-Jane Baldry [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1500994616071{padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]In a dark and desolate part of northern Norway, the all-powerful local magnate is the harsh and unforgiving Thor Brekan\u00e6s. 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