Writer-director-actor Victor Sjöström was the most renowned director of Swedish silent cinema, celebrated worldwide for his use of location shooting, innovative lighting, and focus on carefully modulated and scaled gestures. As with his 19th century literary precursor Henrik Ibsen, realism, myth, and fantasy are seamlessly interwoven. The Symbolist strain of Sjöström's work is especially pronounced in this influential adaptation of a Selma Lagerlöf novel. Visually astonishing in-camera double exposures gain resonance from a psychologically complex series of nested flashbacks. Presented in a tinted restoration, with a score courtesy of Matti Bye. Subtitles available.