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Laila (1929 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Laila' is a 1929 Norwegian black and white silent drama film. The film was written, directed, and edited by George Schnevoigt. Mona Mrtenson, Tryggve Larssen, and Harald Schwenzen played the leading roles.
Plot
Shopkeeper Lind is taking his daughter on a long journey to a distant church to be baptized. His daughter is with a servant in the last sled, which trails behind out of sight and comes under attack by a wolf pack. In the confusion that arises as they flee, the baby falls out of the sled. Jmpa, a Smi man, finds the baby and takes her to his Smi employer, the rich Aslag Laagje, who adopts her to be his daughter. Laagje baptizes the child as Laila. A year later, Laagje visits Lind and his bereaved wife, and realizes that Laila is their daughter. He returns Laila to them, but not long afterwards the plague decimates the village and kills her parents. Jmpa goes to the village and finds Laila in the care of an elderly couple. He takes Laila back to Laagje, and she grows up together with Laagje's adopted son, Mellet, who falls in love with her. Laila, however, eventually meets her cousin Anders Lind and become fond of him. After Anders helps rescue her after a canoe accident, they arrange to rendezvous at midnight, but Anders cannot come because his father falls ill and dies. Laila believes he has betrayed her and agrees to marry Mellet. With the aid of Jmpa and at the last moment, Anders arrives at the church just before the wedding ceremony concludes. Laila and Anders resolve all and become engaged.
About the film
'Laila' was directed and edited by George Schnevoigt, who also wrote the film's script based on Jens Andreas Friis's . The book, originally published in Norwegian in 1881 as 'From Finmarken', was translated into a Swedish in 1882 with the title 'Lajla : en Berttelse Frn Lappmarken'. produced the film with as production manager. The interiors were recorded in Nordisk Film's studio in Valby, Denmark and the exteriors of Outer Billefjord and Skoganvarre (both in Porsanger), Karasjok, Bossekop, Skjrvy, Geilo, and Ustaoset. The film was shot by and Allan Lynge.
The film premiered on 6 October 1929 at the cinema Palace in Denmark. On 12 October 1929, the film was previewed on the National Theatre Oslo, and on 14 October 1929, it had a Norwegian bi-premiere at the Circus World Theater and the in Oslo. It had a Swedish bi-premiere on 11 November 1929 at and the Olympia in Bors. The title was named 'Laila' in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 'Laila - Die Tochter des Nordens' in Germany, and 'Laila, La Figlia del Nord' in Italy. In Norway, the film was distributed by Norrna-Film AS, in Sweden by AB Svensk Filmindustri, and in Denmark by International Film (Sophus Madsen).
Several of the actors in the film had previously worked with Schnevoigt in the 1928 film .
The movie was released in 2011 on DVD by Flickeralley.com.
Cast
* Mona Mrtenson Laila
* Tryggve Larssen Jmpa
* Harald Schwenzen Anders Lind
* Peter Malberg Aslag Laagje
* Cally Monrad Mor Laagje, Aslag's wife
* Henry Gleditsch Mellet, Laagje's foster child
* Finn Bernhoft C.O. Lind, trader
* Lind's wife
* Ibe Brekke Magga, servant at the Lind house
* Aslag Aslagsen Sara Lasse, servant at the Lind house
* Rasmus Christiansen Jens Lind, C.O.'s brother
* Alice O'Fredericks Inger, Anders's sister
* Mattis Morotaja Mellet as a boy
Music
* "Laila's love song", music: Einar Ellgen and Fred Bjnner (Lars Minsaas), arranged by Kristian Hauger.
* "Lullaby for Laila", music: .
When the film was released on DVD in 2011, it featured newly composed music by Robert Israel, inspired by Edvard Grieg.
References
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