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KÖRKARLEN

  • 100 min
  • Sweden
  • special screening
  • 1 Screening
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Experience this ground-breaking silent film classic with live organ music in the sublime Nidaros Cathedral! During the film screening, organist Mattias Wager will be improvising on the cathedral's majestic Steinmeyer organ. With such an enormous sound palette to choose from, Wager will add colour and commentary to this silent masterpiece in a completely unique way. This will be a magnificent experience for the ages!

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On New Year's Eve, drunkard David Holm is intoxicated with two drinking buddies. He tells them about an old legend that the last person to die each year has to drive Death's carriage and carry the souls of the dead for an entire year. This will be a night where David must reflect on his own life and he meets a horrible fate.

Together with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922), Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage) is considered a masterpiece of early horror film, greatly influencing Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick as well as a number of horror filmmakers. Kubrick himself gained inspiration for the iconic axe scene in The Shining (1980) from Körkarlen.

Screening

Saturday 11. march 18.00 18.00
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Information

Original title KÖRKARLEN
Director Victor Sjöström
Year 1921
Length 100 min
Country Sweden
Language no speech
Subtitles English
Cast Victor Sjöström, Hilda Bergström, Tore Svennberg