The Students at Tröstehult

1924 ComedyRomance 96 minutes Directed by Edvard Persson

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About The Students at Tröstehult

At the Scanian estate Tröstehult, Baron Brusenhielm objects when his small son Karl Oscar plays house with Ann-Marie, the tenant's daughter. Years later Karl Oscar, about to finish school, pretends to study church history and reads The Seducer's Diary instead. He and his tutor, Tobias Bruce, both court the grown Ann-Marie. Karl Oscar marries her. Ten years after that, Tobias is alone and drinking, Ann-Marie is miserable, and Karl Oscar is carrying on with the maid. Tobias and Ann-Marie meet and then part.

Cast & crew

More about The Students at Tröstehult

Edvard Persson wrote and directed it, his first film as actor, director, and screenwriter. He plays Tobias Bruce. Hellwig F. Rimmen photographed it between June and September 1923. The working title was En sommarsaga. Malmö Biograf AB released it. The play, also by Persson, had opened at Malmö Friluftsteater on 25 May 1922 and used an idea from Tor Hedberg's Karlavagnen (1910).

Themes

  • A baron trying to stop a tenant's daughter
  • Two men courting Ann-Marie
  • A marriage that sours after ten years
  • Tröstehult
  • Karl Oscar
  • Ann-Marie
  • Tobias Bruce
  • The Seducer's Diary
  • Scanian estate
  • tutor

Making

Persson shot the manor story on real Scanian grounds: Hjularöd, Harlösa, Åsum, Dalby Church, and Malmö. He cast himself as the tutor who loses Ann-Marie.

Look

Hellwig F. Rimmen shot the black-and-white picture on the estate locations, including Dalby Church and Hjularöd.

Music

Silent.

Preservation

The Swedish Film Institute holds a print. A copy catalogued from an SFI transfer is in the Swedish Media Database.

Notes

  • It opened at the Metropol in Malmö on 14 January 1924, then at the Imperial and the Rialto in Stockholm on 21 January.
  • The Swedish censor cleared it from age 15.
  • Richard Svanström plays Baron Brusenhielm. Nils Ekstam plays Karl Oscar. Ellen Dall plays Ann-Marie. Harry Persson plays Karl Oscar as a boy.
  • Victor Hallin plays Jan, Ann-Marie's father. Wera Berg von Linde plays Karl Oscar's sister Märta.
  • In Denmark it was titled Studenterne fra Lund.
  • A piece of the film was reused in the 1948 cavalcade Glada paraden.

Scenes

  • The children play house, and the baron moves to break it up.
  • Karl Oscar hides The Seducer's Diary inside his church-history reading.
  • Ten years into the marriage, Ann-Marie and the drunken Tobias meet and separate.

Influenced by

  • Tor Hedberg's play Karlavagnen (1910)
  • Edvard Persson's own 1922 play

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-studenterna-p-trstehult)
  • Swedish Film Institute