Terje Vigen (1917)

Terje Vigen: Directed by Victor Sjöström. With Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff, Bergliot Husberg. Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy’s family finds itself dependent on Terje’s beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

“Back in the 80u0026#39;s and 70u0026#39;s there was an humoristic saying in Norway that went something like u0026quot; there are three kinds of swedes, swedish thiefu0026#39;s, sweds who steal and thieving sweds!u0026quot; This movie aparently show where the saying came from. This poem came from a time when Norway was a vasal state under the swedeu0026#39;s, and choosing between english capture and cooperating with a swede would be a hard choice.”