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Pan (1922 film)
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'Pan' is a 1922 Norwegian film directed by Harald Schwenzen. It was the first of four film adaptations of the novel of the same name by 1920 Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, and one of the earliest Scandinavian adaptations of a Hamsun work (preceded only by a 1921 film of 'Growth of the Soil'). It tells the story of a romance between a wealthy woman and a soldier, and was filmed in Nordland and in Algeria (standing in for the Indian locations in the novel).Arne Lund, [http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/viewFile/688/654 "Knut Hamsun at the movies in transnational contexts"], 'Nordlit', vol. 25, pp. 42-43.
According to author Donald Dewey, 'Pan' was popular with the Norwegian public, but when Hamsun himself was asked for his reaction, he commented only, "I dont understand film and I am in bed with the flu," and hung up.Donald Dewey, [http://www.amscan.org/pdf/SR.Fall10-Fall-p18-36.pdf "Edging Out of Darkness" Norways Long Struggle to Establish a Thriving Film Industry"] , 'Scandinavian Review' (The American-Scandinavian Foundation), Autumn 2010, pp. 18, 30. Michael Wilmington of the 'Chicago Tribune' describes it as "A fine film and a real discovery".
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