Love and Journalism
About Love and Journalism
Polar explorer Eric Bloomé (Richard Lund) dodges the press when he comes home to his mother in Stockholm. One reporter is thrown out by the housekeeper Stina (Stina Berg). Hertha Weye (Karin Molander), sent after the same scoop, dresses in her younger sister's clothes to look sixteen and answers the Bloomés' ad for a maid. She invents a drunken mother and night school so she will only have to work mornings, then copies Eric's notes. Stina fires her for taking Antarctic photographs. Eric tracks her down as she is tearing up the article, scolds her, kisses her, and brings her home as the woman he means to marry.
Cast & crew
More about Love and Journalism
Mauritz Stiller directed Harriet Bloch's script. The Swedish censor passed it on 3 July 1916 with no age limit. It opened the same day in Malmö and Stockholm on 14 August 1916. Denmark saw it on 16 October 1916 at the Palads in Copenhagen, under the title Kærlighed og Journalistik.
Themes
Making
Harriet Bloch wrote the script. Stiller made the film at Svenska Bio on Lidingö, with Stockholm streets used for the station and the walk home.
Look
Gustaf Boge photographed the studio interiors on Lidingö and the exteriors at Östra station, Birger Jarlsgatan, Johannesgatan, and Hersby school.
Preservation
Prints survive at the Swedish Film Institute. It is the oldest of Stiller's films kept in original condition.
Notes
- Gucken Cederborg plays Rosika Anunds, the reporter Stina throws out.
- Julius Hälsig is the editorial secretary who gives Hertha the assignment.
- Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson plays Eric's mother, a cabinet minister's wife.
- The house is stuffed with specimens Eric brought back from the Antarctic, which is why they need a second maid.
- Norwegian release followed on 20 October 1916 in Kristiania.
- Swedish Wikipedia calls it the oldest Stiller film preserved in its original state.
Scenes
- Eric slips the crowd of reporters on the station platform.
- Hertha, dressed as a schoolgirl, invents a drunken mother to get the maid's job.
- Stina catches her with Eric's Antarctic photographs and throws her out.
- Eric walks in as she is shredding the article and then presents her to his mother.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-krlek-och-journalistik)
- Swedish Film Institute
